The Evolution Of Gender Roles In The Present Day

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Gender roles In life when we are born into society every male and female is assigned to a natural growth theory, which is a gender role. If we convert back to years ago we 'd see a huge difference in our gender roles and equality because men were the proactive providers, protectors, and intellectual figures. For example, men had all the jobs and benefits of living a live life whereas women had to stay at home, take care of the children, cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner, do the laundry; you know "women stuff." According to our present day these gender roles has changed because women are unchained now to do whatever they have interest in. Although things has been running smoothly between males and females, our world is still a biased world. …show more content…

It was very interesting looking at these two images online on the United Kingdom magazines, and the first image was a modern day couple in their home but the man of the house hold was cleaning up while his wife was relaxing on the sofa reading a news paper. I instantly knew that this ad was showing a transferred gender role. In the second image there was a young couple as well, but in this picture the male is lounging while the female is cleaning; which seems normal in our modern day. It brought me back to thinking about gender roles and how much they have evolved in our present …show more content…

Now when I first seen the advertisement I wasn’t shocked because I knew that it was a current day ad. I also know knew the that the roles of each gender was changed because the woman was relaxing on the sofa while the man was doing chores; and I know it is biased to say that men can’t clean up their home while there girlfriend or wife portrays a since of the male role it takes away from his masculinity. So as a little experiment I had showed my mom, dad, and grandparents the two advertisements to get a few of their opinions on the ads and it was exactly what I expected, the woman which was my mother and grandmother didn’t see nothing wrong with ad 1 where the man was cleaning while the female was kicking back reading a newspaper. However my grandma did say that it was funny to see a man cleaning up the house while the woman just chills, she also felt like the female should have been vacuuming the floor while the male lounge and read the newspaper. That was very comprehending for me to hear because my grandma is sixty-five years old and was born in the late 40s, whereas my mom was born in the late 60s so I know the gender roles has changed within two centuries that’s why there views

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