Gender Roles

Specific gender roles can be observed in any culture. The stereotypical culture is that the man has more dominance over the women. Naturally, they are considered as stronger and more capable of doing work. The women, then, is generally considered weaker, more delicate, and incapable of doing the things that men are set out to do. Recently in American culture though, a smaller divide between gender roles has been developing. Now, women are being accepted as equal to the male population and possibly even stronger than males depending on who you ask. However, the presence gender roles still exists primarily in the language that we use on a day to day basis. For example, men naturally tend to use a louder, more demanding intonation and word choice compared to a women's softer intonation and more thoughtful word choice. These language differences definitely reinforces the gender stereotypes because when using language very powerfully, a male naturally overshadows the women because even if she wants to flip this gender role she generally isn't comfortable with using equally powerful language to do so.