Gender Roles

What is the impact of gender roles that society creates and enforces?

Gender roles are false phenomena that have been crafted by humanity which have been nothing but a nuisance and have contributed nothing positive to society. The emphasis society puts on gender roles has created a world where children know the stereotypical roles of a man and those of a woman before they can decide for themselves what they think about gender. A little girl grows up learning that a woman works at home aside from having a day job. Women having jobs has been an advancement, but there is still much work to be done. On a brighter note, in the U.S. women are now in the majority of college degrees, yet they only make up about five percent of all CEOs.  It is ridiculous that in the U.S. there are more CEOs named John than all women combined. Only thirty two percent of national constitutions protect a girl’s right to an education higher than elementary school. This is the impact of the creation and emphasis of gender roles. Even though more and more women are studying, receiving degrees, and getting jobs, they are still affected by society in the field they ‘decide’ to study. There are so many women in fields like nursing, and so few in fields like engineering. Since women are seen as caretakers, it is common and expected for them to study nursing. Very rarely does one see a woman pursuing engineering, since gender roles have filled both men’s and women’s heads with the idea that women cannot manufacture anything. Women have proven to have the intellectual capacity to study in the field of engineering and succeed, but as long as society keeps feeding people with the ignorant, made up roles of men and women, these distressing statistics will never be reduced to equality.