Gender Roles



Gender Roles

Introduction

The paper discusses juvenile delinquency with respect to gender and family. It also gives a brief account of the cross gender treatment of juvenile delinquency by the criminal justice system. Such differences are important to analyze as the rule of law should be equal to everyone irrespective of gender.

The world in which we live to today claims to be modern and advanced. But, still there are few ideas and notions that should have jettisoned years back are still prevalent in today's society. One such phenomenon is of gender inequality. Gender inequality is related to the gender roles can still be observed in this contemporary society around us in more than one ways. The people around us and the people of our society claims that the society has moved ahead and adopted the belief of equality of men and women in our society, outdated ideas about the gender related roles still exists in our society. If we talk about the social discrimination against sex and gender then it would take decades to discuss this issue and despite that one would not be able to reach to a conclusion. This is because this topic is so diverse and broad. Social discrimination involves a number of grounds. In a society, gender discrimination can be done in health sector, gender discrimination can be done in workplace settings, gender discrimination can be done in the field of television and media, gender discrimination can be done in the field of education. Hence, there are scores of ways through which gender discrimination can be taken place.

A stereotype is a widespread preconception that arose from people ascribes certain attributes, characteristics, roles, because of its apparent membership in a particular social group. Although stereotype is a mental process necessary to organize and categorize the information received in order to simplify the understanding that cognitive function is problematic when operating to ignore needs, desires, abilities and circumstances of people that result in the limitation or denial of fundamental rights on the one hand, and the hierarchy between social groups, on the other. Specifically, gender stereotypes are related to the social and culturally assigned to men and women from the physical differences based on gender. While stereotypes affect both men and women have a greater negative effect on the latter, since historically society has assigned supporting roles, socially less valued and less hierarchical. The social subordination becomes particularly serious when it is institutionalized by law. This happens when laws, policies and government practices incorporate, reinforce and perpetuate gender stereotyping, giving strength and authority. Ultimately, the effect is that society accepts it uncritically as true and inevitable, and eventually people shape and adapt their behavior and self-image to the social mandate.

Discussion

Gender Role

A gender role is a set of rules of behavior associated with males and females, respectively, in a given group or social system. The genre is a component of the system of equality, referred to the series of coordination through which a society transforms sexuality biological products of ...