"A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on that person's sex."
This type of demographic history focuses on changes in the status of women and men within a society, including changes in gender roles, patterns of work and employment, family structure, and access to education and healthcare.
Gender: The societal and cultural roles and expectations associated with being male, female, or non-binary.
Demographics: The study of population characteristics, including size, age, gender, ethnicity, migration patterns, and more.
Gender Identity: One’s sense of being male, female, or somewhere in between, as well as how one expresses that identity to others.
Historical Considerations: The ways in which gender roles and expectations have evolved and been enforced over time, as well as how cultural attitudes towards gender have shaped this evolution.
Intersectionality: The ways in which gender intersects with other characteristics, such as race, sexuality, ability, and class, to shape the experiences of different individuals and communities.
Socialization: The process by which individuals are taught the norms, values, and expectations of their gender in society, shaping everything from their behavior to their self-concept.
Sexuality: The range of sexual orientations, including heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality.
Health and Well-being: The different health risks and challenges faced by individuals based on their gender and other characteristics, along with how access to healthcare and social support can play a role.
Legal and Policy Issues: The laws, regulations, and policies that impact the rights and opportunities available to individuals based on their gender identity or expression.
Cultural and Media Representations: The ways in which gender is represented in popular culture, media, and other forms of societal discourse.
Male: Someone who identifies as a man, typically assigned the male sex at birth.
Female: Someone who identifies as a woman, typically assigned the female sex at birth.
Transgender: An umbrella term for people whose gender identity or expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Nonbinary: A gender identity outside of the binary categories of male and female, often referring to a person who sees themselves as existing in between, beyond, or without gender categories.
Genderqueer: A nonbinary identity that often includes a combination of gender identities or a shifting between different gender identities.
Agender: A gender identity characterized by a lack of gender or a neutral gender identity.
Bigender: A gender identity that includes a mixture of masculine and feminine traits or two distinct gender identities.
Two-Spirit: A term used by some Indigenous peoples to describe their gender, sexual, and/or spiritual identity or role.
Intersex: A term used to describe a person born with physical sex characteristics that do not fit typical male or female classifications.
Genderfluid: A gender identity that can change and shift over time, depending on the person's experience and expression.
"Gender roles are usually centered on conceptions of masculinity and femininity."
"Although there are exceptions and variations."
"The specifics regarding these gendered expectations may vary among cultures."
"Gender roles influence a wide range of human behavior."
"Gender roles influence... the clothing a person chooses to wear, the profession a person pursues, the manner of approach to things, the personal relationships a person enters, and how they behave within those relationships."
"Although gender roles have evolved and expanded, they traditionally keep women in the 'private' sphere, and men in the 'public' sphere."
"Various groups, most notably feminist movements, have led efforts to change aspects of prevailing gender roles."
"They believe [gender roles] are oppressive, inaccurate, and sexist."
"Gender roles (and perceived gender roles) vary based on a person's race or ethnicity."
"Behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on that person's sex."
"Gender roles are usually centered on conceptions of masculinity and femininity."
"Gender roles... are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on that person's sex."
"Gender roles influence... the clothing a person chooses to wear."
"Gender roles influence... the profession a person pursues."
"Although gender roles have evolved and expanded, they traditionally keep women in the 'private' sphere."
"Although gender roles have evolved and expanded, they traditionally keep men in the 'public' sphere."
"Various groups, most notably feminist movements, have led efforts to change aspects of prevailing gender roles."
"They believe [gender roles] are oppressive, inaccurate, and sexist."
"The specifics regarding these gendered expectations may vary among cultures."