Gender_And_The_Role_We_Play

Gender And The Role We Play Gender role reversal through out the years has changed, but have we changed with it' Since the dawn of time man was taught to be and act like a man and women were taught to be and act lady like. Each of the sexes had expected roles to play out. Cave men drug their women by their hair to get them to where they were supposed to be. The cave man was seen as masculine. Masculinity may be defined as how men are taught from birth, that if they act a certain way or do certain things, this will define their masculinity. These ”certain things” range from not crying when they get hurt to acting and playing violently. This is what is expected from a “man.” Women were still women and expected to act feminine. Femininity is defined as “1. The quality or state of being feminine. 2. A female trait or characteristic. 3. Women as a group. 4. Womanishness: effeminacy.” (Webster’s II 471). That’s the way things were for a long time and then things began to change. The expectations of a woman’s role in women, man, men, roles, out, things, role, women’s, society, okay, little, home, expected, came, work, woman, time, jane, away, act, wanted, taught, taking, stay, movement, mother, lady, gender, changed, change, certain, army, along, yet, yes