Essay On Gender Expectations Of Children
Gendered Expectations of Children
Being a boy or a girl seems a very certain thing referring to the “sex” of the child which is determined by the child’s physical characteristics. Actually, children are able to decide to behave like a boy or a girl or something in between when growing up by their personal internal definition and interpretation of self which is their “gender identity”. This identity does not completely depend on their biological sex though most children’s gender identity aligns with their biological sex. Sometimes it is also influenced by expectations of gender from children’s parents, grandparents, teachers and some other previous generations and the society. Expectations from different people in different societies differ to each other and children of a society are often punished or rewarded for the degree to which the social roles they play accompany culturally constructed expectations of gender which is their “gender role”. Personally I suppose that parents, teachers and the society should not have strict gendered expectations in children but give them the opportunity to explore different gender roles and playing an androgynous gender role may be more beneficial to children …show more content…
For some of them, they think the Bible is a powerful weapon for its inherent gender bias. They think at the beginning of the Bible it implies that Eva has an inferior status to Adam and women are the second citizenships in the world. This kind of gender bias is also revealed in that religion has been hard on women in general. Personally I think some reason of the gender bias in the bible is because the book of the Bible is written by men not women. Besides, actually there have been more and more women leader in many churches who plays important roles in the religion and some Christians consider that women are equally loved by God with men but not man’s
Being a boy or a girl seems a very certain thing referring to the “sex” of the child which is determined by the child’s physical characteristics. Actually, children are able to decide to behave like a boy or a girl or something in between when growing up by their personal internal definition and interpretation of self which is their “gender identity”. This identity does not completely depend on their biological sex though most children’s gender identity aligns with their biological sex. Sometimes it is also influenced by expectations of gender from children’s parents, grandparents, teachers and some other previous generations and the society. Expectations from different people in different societies differ to each other and children of a society are often punished or rewarded for the degree to which the social roles they play accompany culturally constructed expectations of gender which is their “gender role”. Personally I suppose that parents, teachers and the society should not have strict gendered expectations in children but give them the opportunity to explore different gender roles and playing an androgynous gender role may be more beneficial to children …show more content…
For some of them, they think the Bible is a powerful weapon for its inherent gender bias. They think at the beginning of the Bible it implies that Eva has an inferior status to Adam and women are the second citizenships in the world. This kind of gender bias is also revealed in that religion has been hard on women in general. Personally I think some reason of the gender bias in the bible is because the book of the Bible is written by men not women. Besides, actually there have been more and more women leader in many churches who plays important roles in the religion and some Christians consider that women are equally loved by God with men but not man’s