Santrock on Gender Roles and Identity

Santrock on Gender Roles and Identity
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Santrock on Gender Roles and Identity
Gender identity refers to being either a female or male, usually attained by children during childhood from two years. On the other hand, gender role denotes the expectations that describe how males or females should feel, act and think. According to Santrock (2013), different researchers on gender roles make statements that are more of assumptions than observation or inference (14). Assumptions mislead society because there is no truth within the statements. The idea I consider to consist of an assumption than observation is "gender-role stereotypes are more harmful to females than males." The argument is more of a belief because data from various researchers indicate that gender role biases are harmful to all genders, girls and boys.
For instance, in schools where teachers are biased, they may criticize boys more than girls, with the school management stereotyping boys' behavior as problematic. Santrock states that stereotypes regarding boys are more rigid than on girls (Stantrock, 2013, p. 12). Criticizing the boys more than girls makes the boys feel less valued, leading to anxiety and withdrawal in a classroom situation hence poor performance (Alan et al., 2018, p. 88). Thus, gender roles stereotypes affect all genders but not only boys. Each member of the society feels good when treated fairly, while stereotypes meant for discriminating against a specific gender bring pain.
The aspect that "girls will grow up to have feminine gender roles and boys will grow up to have masculine gender roles" can be considered less of a hypothesis. Socially, mothers interact with their daughters at a young age to teach them feminine roles. On the other hand, fathers interact wit...