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Gender roles in our society are based on prejudice.
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Paul Crane 24/1/05 Mr. Savage Humanities Gender roles in our society are based on prejudice "Gender roles in our society are based on prejudice" is an essay about the ways in which we stereotype each gender. These stereotypes lead the children, through socialisation, to conform to the way in which both male and females are supposed to act in society. For example, the male stereotype in supposed to have physical strength, be aggressive and competitive characteristics, whereas female characteristics are supposed to be sensitive, caring and compassionate. If men act in the female characteristics they are regarded as "wimps", and if women act like men then they are called "tomboys". This view is bombarded at us as children should affect us when we enter working life causing men to have better jobs than those of women. This is prejudice. I aim to find out whether these views are correct. I want to find out are women...
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