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Gender Roles - Coggle Diagram
Gender Roles
In the home
Women typically expected to work in the house and have children
Women expected to have children
Treated like its their only good aspect
Used to push further generations
Creates an expectation for all women to be motherly
Women expected to get married
Overlaps with homophobia: Expected to be married to a man
Hostility towards lesbian women because men are put out of the equation, so it's simply women pleasing women and not women pleasing men.
Bisexual women who date men treated like they're not really gay
Expectations of being used for pleasure of men
Treated like the biggest goal in life they should have
Men typically expected to work outside the house and do the harder more physical work
In work
Men considered harder workers and respected more in the industry
Men paid more than women for the same level of work
Less pressure on men to be good enough for jobs
Given the role of a provider, so there's a bias that they need the money more
Pressure on men to get an outside job in an industry
Pushed towards less physical and mental labor intensive work
Women seen as naturally weaker than men so better fit for easier jobs
Avoidance of hurting women's reproductive system, often omitting a women's choice to choose a job that may damage that part of them assuming they'll want children
Women seen as dumber than men, so given simpler mental work
Often given lower positions serving men in higher positions
Women seen as less capable of work and less respected in the industry
Women get paid less than men for the same level of work
Less pressure to get an outside home job in an industry
More expected to work in their homes
More pressure on women to be good enough for jobs in industry
Pushed towards less physical and mental labor intensive work
Men seen as naturally stronger so they're given harder work
Men seen as naturally smarter so they're given harder mental work
In education
Women seen as dumber than men
Often less encouraged for high intelligence jobs
exception is when they are pushed to become teachers
Association with nurturing children
Pushed away from getting higher education
Men seen as smarter than women
More encouraged for high intelligence jobs
Pushed towards higher education
Sometimes has an exception in literature and language arts
Association with emotional intelligence and vulnerability, which is seen as unmasculine
In actions
Women seen as weak
Seen as more emotional
Seen as unpredictable and unreasonable
fear of being seen like this a makes them embarrassed about their emotions
seen as overly sensitive
actually more emotionally intelligence without the pressure to repress themselves
expected to use this to support men
Physical attributes
Reproductive system
Seen as their most important attribute
Used for the pleasure of men and expected to want to pleasure men
Aphobia
Seen as naturally physically weak
Men seen as strong
Less emotional
Assumed to be in more control
Encouraged to repress themselves for strength
Instills a fear of expressing emotion and becoming weak
Only a select few emotions allowed to be expressed intensely
Anger
leads to violent outbursts if other emotions are too repressed
Excitement but only a strong kind
Physical attributes
Reproductive ability
Seen as naturally physically strong