Gender Roles in society

A gender role can be defined as a specific set of socially accepted actions associated with a gender. There is a significant difference between the roles of men and women. Men are supposed to bring home the money, fix the broken items around the house, and be macho. Women are supposed to raise the children, do the household chores, make dinner, listen to their husbands, and look pretty. These roles are not only insulting and oppressive but completely unreasonable. According to these roles women have no identity. They are only known as a wife and a mother. They are not allowed to have money or think for themselves. Women have been trying to fight this oppression since the 60's. Women and men should be treated the same and have the same opportunities. The roles aren't fair to men either. Men are expected to be macho and mostly unfeeling. The ad is a good example of the roles men and women are expected to fill. Women are objects that men own. These roles are holding us back. Society shouldn't be setting roles for people because this only leads to intolerance. A woman can fix a sink just as well as a man can. We should be able to coexist without any prejudices. The world would be so much better without gender roles.