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Gender roles may be entirely different from cultural and ethnic expectations of family and peers. Sadker (1999) revealed that three out of four males report that they were targets of sexual harassment (usually through challenges to their masculinity). Sadker went on to report, “Males who express an interest in careers typically thought of as ‘feminine’ also encounter social pressures”

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a woman with words on her face and neck that read gendering everything harms everyone

(𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘆) "I am always a princess (SWIPE for some queer theory and dumb gendered products)." - mattxiv on Instagram

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Social norms and gendered expectations

Several years ago Clifford Nass, a late professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University, did a study where participants were taught a subject by a male or female voice on a computer. The two subjects taught were “love and relationships” and “physics.” Participants were randomly assigned to one of the four combinations of voice+topic to learn the material. At the end of the session, they completed a computer-based questionnaire where they were asked how effective each voice was…

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Society has been forming gender stereotypes for centuries. It’s time to break with convention and rethink gender norms. Let’s take a look at real-life examples and find out what we can do to change up traditional gender roles.

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