Gender role

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1. 1 c ) Emergence of gender specific roles: sociological and psychological perspectives. Dr. Saramma Mathew

2. Gender roles Gender refers to the roles and responsibilities of men and women that are created in our families, our societies and our cultures . Gender includes the expectations held about the characteristics, aptitudes and likely behaviours of both women and men.

3. Gender roles Gender roles and expectations are learned. They can change over time and they vary within and between cultures..

4. Gender roles A gender role is a set of behavioral norms associated particularly with males or females in a given social group or system, includes division of labor between men and women child-rearing and socialization processes

5. Gender roles Leads youth toward maturing to perpetuate the same pattern. Gender-based roles coincident with sex-based roles have been the norm in many traditional societies, specific components and workings of the gender/sex system of role division vary from society to society

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7. Gender schema theory Gender schema theory refers to the theory that children learn about what it means to be male and female from the culture in which they live. According to this theory, children adjust their behavior to fit in with the gender norms and expectations of their culture.

8. Gender schema theory Sandra Bem in 1981 A cognitive theory to explain how individuals become gendered in society, and how sex-linked characteristics are maintained and transmitted to other members of a culture. Bem believed that these gender schema were limiting for men, women, and society as a whole . Raising children free from these gender schema and gender stereotypes would lead to greater freedom and fewer restrictions.

9. Gender schema theory individuals could fall into one of four different gender categories. Sex-typed individuals identify with their gender and process information through the lens of that gender schema. Cross-typed individuals, she suggested, process information through the lens of the opposite gender. Androgynous individuals exhibit both masculine and feminine thinking. Undifferentiated individuals do not show a consistent use of sex-typed processing.