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Parents can also support sex education programs in schools that address gender and power. Parents can support their children by allowing them to express their gender in ways that feel right for them. People, including youth, go to great lengths to change their bodies to conform to these unrealistic ideals via dieting, plastic surgery, obsessive exercise, etc.Īs times have changed, so too have gender roles, freeing people to behave in ways that are authentic to who they are, instead of based solely on their gender. Expectations about looks or standards of beauty for men/boys and women/girls are perpetuated in popular media, such as TV, movies, internet, magazines, etc. Gender role stereotypes not only inform how people should behave, but also what they should look like. Additionally, strict gender role stereotypes also limit and harm men by denying their ability to be empathetic, nurturing or vulnerable.

Girls are dehumanized by sexual objectification, which allows for the easy justification of violence against girls and women. These strict traditional gender roles do girls/women and boys/men a disservice. Research has shown that adherence to strict or traditional gender roles can actually be harmful as children learn from an early age that girls are supposed to hide their intelligence so they don’t intimidate boys or boys are supposed to hide their vulnerability. In the United States, traditional gender roles harken back to a time when there were clear ways men were expected to behave (i.e., strong, non-emotional, competent, hypersexual, athletic and aggressive) and women were expected to behave (i.e., kind, nurturing, especially loving toward children, domestically competent and emotional). These stereotypes can vary vastly from country to country. Gender role stereotypes are a society’s expectations about how a person should behave based on their gender. Today people have more freedom than ever to express themselves in ways that feel true to who they are, regardless of their gender.

This pressure can make people unhappy, if they are being asked to be or act in a way that does not match who they really are. People have occasionally felt pressure to act or look a certain way based on their gender. What if you’re a girl who loves sports or a boy who feels emotional and cries sometimes? While some girls might like to care for people or some boys might like sports, gender role stereotypes can prevent people from doing those things they enjoy. These rules about how boys/men and girls/women should act are gender role stereotypes. If you were a girl, you may have been told you should be nice or be good at things like cooking and cleaning. For example, if you were a boy, maybe you were told not to cry and expected to be strong and athletic.

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