Traditional Gender Role In Society

Gender Role Traditional gender roles have vastly changed throughout the years. The traditional gender role for a male was to be a provider for his family, to be a strong man who was dependable. He had to dress a certain way, keep his hair short, was piercing free, and rid of all things that were considered non-masculine. For a female, it was to be a homemaker for the family, to clean, cook, and watch the kids while the husband was at work. Females had to worry about the family first, they couldn’t just go out and do things that men did such as come home and relax, or drink a beer with friends in a bar. These traditional gender roles wouldn’t fit in today’s contemporary society, what was acceptable then isn’t acceptable now. Things have …show more content…
Today’s society is very openminded to men and woman doing their own thing, no one is tied down to the idea of how they are supposed to act. For example, Beyoncé’s music video for the song if “I was a boy” says a lot about how men and woman are supposed to act. In the video, it is okay for men to just leave after his wife made some type of breakfast, it is okay for the guy to flirt with his partner on the job. If the guy doesn’t pick up the call because he is out with his friends or dance with other people at the party, these are all things that when a guy does it makes it okay. As soon as the girl does it, though it is looked at with negative connotation about it. Girls couldn’t do things that guys could do and get away with it. Today’s society knocks the idea that it is okay for men to do something and for woman not to, the society we live in today allows anyone to do whatever they want whenever they want. No one is held to a standard of how they are supposed to act. (Beyonce, “If I was a boy” …show more content…
This society allows anyone to be who they want to be. If a guy wants to have his hair long and take care of the kids, it’s okay. If a female wants to be an independent woman who isn’t married that’s okay too. Woman don’t have to have husbands in order to be seen as respectable. Guys, for guys we don’t have to worry about the idea of being seen as the biggest guy anymore. It’s okay to not to be the biggest guy around, men can dress however they want to dress now. When people talk about gender roles they are also talking about sexuality, and in today’s day in age it’s okay to like whoever you want. Same sex marriage is looked upon in a positive lighting, it is also okay to date and marry whoever you please. In the traditional gender role, same sex marriage wasn’t even thought about. If you were gay fifty years ago, people thought you were mentally sick, but today it’s okay to like the same sex and marry the same sex. You can always have a relationship where the male takes care of the house and kids, while the female is out at work providing for the