Gender Roles And Affiliations Research Paper 2022

Running Head: GENDER ROLES AND AFFILIATIONS
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GENDER ROLES AND AFFILIATIONS
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GENDER ROLES AND AFFILIATIONS
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Introduction
Gender roles are general perceptions or rather social constructs that have been developed
overtime to describe the behaviors of men and women in the society. These social constructs
unfortunately are not based on the natural human behavior but rather based on the traditional
gender roles that tend to specifically describe roles, activities and behaviors boys and girls
should demonstrate in society (Khader, 2018). This paper is going to discuss the role of gender
roles and affiliation process in the media. My main audience are youths, and therefore I am going
to emphasized on the need to avoid and scrap off traditional gender roles since both men and
women are capable of handling many of the same tasks.
People in the modern society especially the youths should embrace the fact that both
women and men can perform various tasks the same way (Päßler & Hell, 2012). Television and
other media platforms should portray gender equality and reinforce women’s empowerment in
the society. Unlike traditional gender roles that specifically characterize women as caregivers;
prepare food, clean clothes and act as maids and men on the other hands act as the professionals
who should assume important and good paying jobs. Media need to enlighten the current
generation especially the youths that men and women should not be seen as different people with
different specific gender behaviors. There should be equality and respect to both gender,
everyone should be given an opportunity to exploit his or her full potential.