Their gender identification may be ambiguous , and they may reject gender roles altogether. Gender roles still impact the way individuals are perceived by the world and what others expect of them—from decisions about which toys children should play with to what jobs people should have. Gender roles also dictate traditional conceptions about what makes someone attractive. There is a lot of discussion surrounding whether gender roles are helpful or harmful.
Breaking gender roles can be considered liberating by some people and offensive by others. Because many people believe that gender roles inherently produce inequality, criticism of them has increased, especially in movements such as feminism. Well, before the mids, pink clothing was more often worn by boys.
Despite the common conception that pink is a feminine color, associating pink with women is relatively recent, driven largely by advertising. The following video describes gender roles and provides insight into why some people might want to break out of them. Middle school intervention promoting progressive gender beliefs in boys helps prevent aggression against girls… I guess appreciating unfairness in gender role scripts helps! Can we just agree that cleaning and cooking is a basic life skill and not a gender role.
So let's all do our fair share at home. Which of the following things are influenced by traditional gender roles? How people dress B. In conflict settings, girls and women are even more likely to have their mobility severely limited, resulting in more time spent within the home than men and boys.
Girls and boys can also be assigned very different tasks even when working in the same environment, which exposes them to unique risks and hazards. On a family farm, for example, boys often bear greater responsibility for operating machinery, using sharp tools, and spraying chemicals. Girls, on the other hand, more often play a role in hauling water and carrying wood. Boys, on the other hand, are encouraged to attend and complete school in order to provide for their families. Gender-based violence GBV refers to all harm inflicted or suffered by individuals on the basis of gender differences and is influenced by gender norms.
Its intention is to establish or reinforce power imbalances and perpetuate gender inequalities. Worldwide, 1 in 3 women experiences some form of GBV during a lifetime. At least million girls and women have experienced female genital cutting globally, with many being cut by health care providers[iii]. School-related GBV is a significant issue that occurs due to gender norms and unequal power hierarchies. It may occur on the way to school or at school, and may be perpetrated by peers, teachers or other school staff.
Bullying is the most common form of violence in schools, affecting 1 in 3 students aged [iv]. While girls are significantly more vulnerable to sexual violence due to gender norms, the stigma of sexual violence against boys and the lack of services to respond to the needs of male survivors makes it even less likely that such incidents will be reported.
For example, traditional gender norms around masculinity will likely affect whether boys access mental health services, as well as how boys are treated by service providers when they do report sexual violence. To build a more equal, inclusive future, we need to start with childhood.
Our work reaches hundreds of millions of children every year promoting gender equality , right from the start. By doing so, we fill a need for longitudinal studies on the impact of traditional gender role beliefs as well as address the lack of STEM differentiation when investigating its impact on gendered occupational choices in previous research.
As hypothesized, females with stronger traditional gender role beliefs in adolescence attained lower levels of education in adulthood — a finding that further supports previous work by Scott One explanation for this association could be that the endorsement of traditional gender roles during adolescence e. If so, this explanation would be in congruence with findings by Corrigall and Konrad that found that women with more traditional attitudes worked fewer hours and had lower income than women with more egalitarian views in their late twenties.
In addition, more traditional gender role beliefs actually predicted occupational attainment within LS domains over PMET domains. The reduced likelihood of occupational attainment in a PMET domain among females that endorse traditional gender role beliefs lends further support to research that has documented male and female value of gender-stereotyped domains in alignment with their respective gender e.
However, our nuanced findings with regards to the effects on occupational attainment in PMET- and LS-related careers underline the importance of using a differentiated conceptualization of STEM domains. Thus, to truly capture and understand the origins of gender differentiation in the STEM field, a broader conceptualization of STEM-related occupations that is fully inclusive of LS such as health and medicine is needed.
This will not only allow for a better scope of STEM-related or, more broadly speaking, science-related occupations, but it will also more accurately represent the participation of women in STEM. It may be that there is an indirect link between traditional gender role beliefs and STEM-typed occupational attainment that is mediated by educational attainment. This might be especially relevant as STEM occupations generally require a higher degree of educational attainment and technical training relative to non-STEM occupations.
Traditional gender role beliefs did not significantly associate with educational or STEM-related occupational attainment for male participants. However, interestingly, associations of traditional gender role beliefs and STEM occupational attainment were in the similar direction as for females, pointing to a similar pattern of impact for males as for females, only less pronounced.
Particularly with regards to STEM-related occupational attainment, one reason for the non-significance of the effects for males might be the small sample size of males in LS-related careers. It also needs to be noted that coefficients for females and males were not statistically significantly different from each other. More specifically, as expected higher educational attainment by females was mediated by lower endorsement of traditional gender role beliefs by females.
In addition, as expected stronger endorsement of traditional gender role beliefs by males partially explained a higher rate of attainment of PMET-related careers compared to non-STEM careers.
However, gender differences in attainment of LS-related occupations in comparison to non-STEM occupations and PMET-related occupations were not mediated by traditional gender role beliefs. The found effects were, however, in the expected direction and might have been affected by the low sample size of males in LS occupations in the current sample. Thus, in accordance with the Expectancy-Value theoretical framework Eccles et al. This finding further highlights that it is important to have a differentiated conceptualization of STEM occupations, as STEM occupations encompass a variety of occupations with differential values attached to them by males and females.
Given our findings, one potential way to address the existing gender disparity in the traditional STEM fields could be to better contextualize the human applications of these fields to attract more females.
It would be equally prudent to address the stereotype of PMET-related occupations as male-typed domains, that are isolating and incompatible with the goals of helping others Cheryan et al. This might be deterring females from aspiring to such occupations. On the other hand, our findings indicate that changes in the socialization of societal gendered expectations with a movement to more egalitarian gender role beliefs, as currently ongoing Brooks and Bolzendahl, , will ultimately help ease gender disparities in educational and STEM occupational attainment.
While the longitudinal dataset used in the present study allowed for an investigation of the long-term impact of traditional gender role beliefs, it needs to be kept in mind that the present longitudinal sample was biased toward lower levels of traditional gender role beliefs due to attrition.
As a result, the present study did not present the full variation in traditional gender role beliefs that likely exist in the general population. Our present sample was also biased toward having mothers with a higher level of education. Given these constraints with regards to variation in traditional gender role beliefs and socio-economic background, our findings likely underestimate the effects of traditional gender role beliefs on educational and STEM occupational choices.
Lastly, the present sample also consisted of a higher rate of females than males due to attrition. As a result, the sample size for individual STEM categories e.
This means that these particular findings need to be interpreted with caution due to the lack of power. To address the bias in our present sample, future research should replicate the findings using a more gender balanced sample capturing effectively the whole spectrum of traditional gender role beliefs, STEM occupations, and socio-economic backgrounds to test generalizability.
Our findings illustrate how general beliefs about societal norms, i. Our findings did, however, not look into the educational and occupational trajectories of the participants to see how educational and occupational aspirations and choices developed over time. This important future avenue for research would allow us to better understand the educational and occupational pathways taken by females and males. Such analyses might shine a light on whether females and males differ in the timing or variation of educational and occupational choices, which might, in turn, affect their eventual educational, and occupational attainment.
Future research should also examine the mechanisms through which traditional gender role beliefs affect educational and occupational choices. As previously discussed, traditional gender role beliefs are likely to inform valuing of education and particular STEM domains, which, in turn, determine occupational choices Wigfield and Eccles, These possible ways through which traditional gender role beliefs might differentially affect educational and occupational choices for females and males, particularly in STEM, need to be empirically tested.
In addition, apart from exploring the processes driving the impact of traditional gender role beliefs on career choices, future analyses should explore how other important life choices e. More importantly, particularly life choices with regards to the timing of marriage and child bearing very likely affect educational and occupational pathways differentially for females and males.
As such, another significant avenue of research will also be to examine actual, and perceived, opportunities for employment and lifestyle affordances i. For example, women might gravitate more toward LS-typed careers if there are a greater number of opportunities for work in non-academic settings as opposed to traditional science domains Ceci et al.
Research is beginning to examine the congruence of perceived affordances and desired goals in explaining gender-differentiated STEM occupational choices e. It will be imperative to continue this avenue of research and examine how gender roles beliefs inform a socially constructed narrative of perceived abilities, affordances, and anticipated goals and resultant choices, if we are to support continued opting into these STEM fields.
This study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the Institutional Review Board of the University of Michigan and the University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States with written informed consent from all subjects. Written informed consent for subjects under the age of 16 was obtained from parents.
All subjects gave written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. A-LD and NS conceived the idea of the study. JE was the architect of the data used in the study. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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