Gender Roles and Expectations Impact on Education, Workplace  Domestic Sphere and LGBTQIA+ Community

Gender Roles and Expectations- Impact on Education, Workplace  Domestic Sphere and LGBTQIA+ Community

Discrimination and prejudice based on gender are evident in societies. Accordingly, they can be witnessed in schools, workplaces, at home, and against members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Therefore, remedies can be implemented to solve some of these apparent gender-based discriminations and expectations.

Effects on Education and Workplace

Gender stereotyping in the educational sector is the cause of the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses to date. When boys and girls join a school, teachers subconsciously train them to be perfect in distinctive subjects. Female students are increasingly encouraged to embrace arts and languages, while male learners are expected to be excellent performers in technical subjects. As such, while tutoring students, a teacher will reprimand a boy who underperforms in science and mathematics more than a girl who exhibits weaknesses in these areas of education (ECU online, 2019). Similarly, if a boy begins to show love for art subjects and performs better than they do in sciences and mathematics, they are perceived to be less intelligent and “manly.” Similarly, a girl who excels in sciences and mathematics is deemed superior to their peers, yet boys and girls have similar academic capacities when starting school. Women are underrepresented in technical areas in the workplace because they were discouraged from excelling in STEM subjects while in school. Men are more in technical fields, a notion that society promotes vehemently.

Effects Within the Domestic Sphere

Gendered roles have also played a role in family dissensions in the domestic sphere. Today, society expects men and women to perform specific gender roles at home, which causes conflicts. For instance, traditionally, men are to be breadwinners for their families by engaging in economically viable activities. Similarly, women are supposed to stay home and take care of children and the home, and deviation from these roles causes problems between spouses. Society openly discriminates against men who decide to be stay-at-home husbands, viewing the act as abnormal (Miller & Borgida, 2016). Similarly, if a woman becomes the breadwinner for a family, society looks down on them. Thus, gender roles in the domestic sphere are a source of family contentions today.

Effects On Members of the LGBTQIA+ Community

To date, society expects men and women to be heterogeneous and to perform their reproductive roles as allocated traditionally. As such, the gender role of the woman ultimately is to give birth, while that of the man is to help a woman conceive through sexual intercourse. Members of the LGBTQIA+ community are perceived as outcasts in today’s society because they have denounced their gender roles (Browne, 2019). For instance, lesbians are abhorred by society because they have voluntarily refused to give birth or to get married to men, which is a woman’s gendered role allocated by society. Similarly, transgender men and women are shunned by society because they are perceived to be escaping from their identity, which society assumes people manifest when born. Overall, society discriminates against the LGBTQIA+ community for their decision to escape their traditionally assigned gender roles, making them deviants who deserve mistreatment.

Remedies For Gender Stratifications

Gender stratification can be remedied in various ways. Firstly, the gendered socialization of men and women from a young age should be discouraged. Parents and caregivers should not feminize or masculinize boys and girls from birth. Instead, children should be allowed to experiment with various roles at will, and they should not be discriminated against if they exhibit traits that lean towards otherness.

Secondly, the online, print, and broadcast media should be discouraged from encouraging and promoting gendered through displayed content consumed by the public (University of Minnesota, 2016). Thirdly, the educational sector should be discouraged from practicing gender discrimination by pushing boys to achieve in STEM subjects and girls to excel in arts and languages. The education sector should understand that boys and girls have similar academic capacities. Fourthly, society should cease mandating men and women to live their traditional gendered roles through reproduction. Lastly, society should institute legal measures to punish people who discriminate against others because of their decisions to deviate from traditionally assigned gendered roles.

References

Browne, E. (2019). 3. Gender norms and LGBTQI people. Align Platform. https://www.alignplatform.org/3-gender-norms-and-lgbtqi-people

ECU online. (2019, July 8). How does gender affect educational opportunity? Online Education – Postgraduate Courses Accelerated – ECU Online. https://studyonline.ecu.edu.au/blog/how-does-gender-affect-educational-opportunity

Miller, A. L., & Borgida, E. (2016). The separate spheres model of gendered inequality. PLOS ONE, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147315

University of Minnesota. (2016). 4.6 Reducing Gender Inequality. https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/chapter/4-6-reducing-gender-inequality/

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How do gender roles and gender expectations affect opportunity in education or the workplace?

How do they affect men and women within the domestic sphere (aka the home)?

How do gender roles and gender expectations affect members of the LGBTQIA+ community?
What are some ways that these gender stratifications could begin to be remedied?