Gender Roles & Equality

Gender roles and gender equality are been a popular topic throughout the world for ages. Both men and women are subject to not having the same privileges due to their gender and how society defines their gender. Gender roles limit one's ability to truly be themselves.  For example, men can not show their feelings or they will be seen as soft, and women can not be aggressive or they will not be seen as "ladylike”. Since society created gender roles, gender equality began to rise. Women are usually the ones to not be seen equal with men. Women have to fight to be treated the same as men and most times it does not work and if it does the change is very little. But, why do they have to fight to begin with? Women deserve be given equal rights to begin with they should not have to fight to have a better life for themselves and others of that same gender.

For my semester project I plan to go around campus and talk to students about the topic. I will ask them questions like “if you had to hire someone to build a house would you pick a man or a women?” or “which gender should be allowed to wear a dress?” I plan to record their answers and create a video to show what people think about this issue and if they see the problem. There is no specific answer to the questions, like the two I listed before, but most people believe specific genders are entitled to do certain things and that is the problem. People are blind to the fact that labeling a gender to certain tasks, or activity is unacceptable. Also, seeing one gender as the superior gender is wrong. Women  and men should have the same opportunity when it comes to jobs, salaries,etc. Any human being is capable of achieving whatever they put their mind to and they should not be told they can't because of their gender.