gender role
the culturally determined set of behaviors, attitudes, and traits that are considered acceptable for a person based on their gender: A woman earning her own living cuts against the traditional gender role where men expect to provide for women.
the outward image of being a particular gender that a person presents to others: The hospital houses people according to the gender role they live as rather than their legal gender.
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The rhetoric became particularly useful during the national debates over gender roles in the 1970s and afterward.
Even LDS leaders are struggling to get Mormons vaccinated against the coronavirus | Benjamin Park | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostThere’s also evidence that, since the pandemic began, US attitudes about gender roles have become more conservative.
Medical myths about gender roles and behaviors, constructed as facts before medicine became an evidence-based science, have resonated perniciously.
Medical Myths About Gender Roles Go Back to Ancient Greece. Women Are Still Paying the Price Today | Elinor Cleghorn | June 17, 2021 | TimeBarrett’s ascendancy to the nation’s highest court has forced a painful reckoning in People of Praise, an insular Christian community that emphasizes traditional gender roles.
‘People of Praise leaders failed me’: Christian group tied to Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces reckoning over sexual misconduct | Beth Reinhard, Alice Crites | June 11, 2021 | Washington PostBy the 1970s, both men and women were questioning the desirability and usefulness of traditional gender roles.
What the Rise and Fall of the Cinderella Fairy Tale Means for Real Women Today | Carol Dyhouse | April 19, 2021 | Time
Fine—many (though not all) transgender people yearn to take on their felt gender role.
Southern Baptist Convention: Trans People Don’t Exist | Jay Michaelson | June 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat accounts for this gender role reversal, in which Vanessa pursues and Louie demurs?
The results in other countries committed to gender role busting are much the same.
But his emphasis really lies more in the “grey zone” than alluding to gender role reversal.
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