Gender Identity

Question 1

Sharpe

Answer 1

Found that girls in the 1970s were mainly focused on finding husbands and having children, but in the 1990s girls were now focused on careers/education.

Question 2

Young and Willmott

Answer 2

Roles between men and women have become equal, men more likely to take equal share of housework and childcare.

Question 3

Carolyn Jackson

Answer 3

Growth in women acting in traditionally ladish ways. Decrease in femininity as women don’t want to be seen as traditionally seen as feminine in the media.

Question 4

Jonathan Gershunny

Answer 4

Men are yet to catch up with women’s changing societal roles however men are slowly starting to accept that traditional masculinity is longer relevant to modern society.

Question 5

Post Modernists

Answer 5

We no longer accept traditional gender roles. We choose aspects of both femininity and masculinity.

Question 6

Parsons

Answer 6

Believes that men are suited to an instrumental role as breadwinners due to their strength and women are suited to an expressive role as a house worker due to their childbearing nature.

Question 7

Hardill et al

Answer 7

Most women defer to their husbands on big financial decisions and men still hold more power within family decisions.

Question 8

Ann Oakley

Answer 8

Women are taught traditional gender roles through gender role socialisation as children.

Question 9

Hey

Answer 9

Female peer groups often police each other which is rooted from patriarchal gender ideas.

Question 10

Mac an Ghaill

Answer 10

Male peer groups still adopt traditionally masculine ideas and attitudes.