Gender Roles

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This paper examines how gender roles are socially created expectations for masculine and feminine behavior. Having early expectations about gender usually results in the person behaving consistently with the original expectations. It attempts to show that although gender roles are embedded into our minds, times are changing and how men and women's attitudes are slowly changing over time; occupations are not being gender-stereotyped as often.

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"Gender roles may explain why men feel the need to help and be courteous to women. Since they were born, over time these beliefs and attitudes about women have been formed, and even though the roles of women may have changed, most men are still used to this traditional way of thinking. Men may feel women are fragile and need help, according to typical stereotypes of females. Men feel women need help, or need to be treated special, which would explain why men feel the need to pay for meals, pull out chairs, and open up the floodgates for people of the female persuasion."

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