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Gender role stereotypes and when a person is expected to act in a certain way based on society’s expectations related to their gender. Traditional gender roles go back to a time when there were clear and unequal rules about how people were expected to act based on their gender. People who were born male when expected to be strong and aggressive, naat emotional and of course to love sports. People who were born female were expected to be kind and nurturing, emotional and domestic meaning they were all supposed to be able to cook and clean. Gender role stereotypes also affect people’s understanding of who is beautiful and who is not. Additionally, stereotypes about gender police people’s emotions. Girls are not expected to show anger, and boys aren’t supposed to be empathetic, nurturing, or vulnerable.

Statistical data shows that women on lesser than men but there’s a lot more to the story. The statistical data simply compares the median wages of men and women who work full time. It doesn’t have to be kept please out for women with different educational levels are different ages or who work in different fields. And we need that information if we want to start closing the gap. A part of the wage gap reflects that women are more concentrated in lower-paying occupations. But to fully understand the issue we need to have a look within the occupations too. Back in 2009 three economists set out to understand the wage gap by following a group of MBA graduates from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. They looked at thousands of men and women who graduated between 1990 and 2006. And their data show that men had slightly higher salaries right out of the gate. But over the years the gap widened considerably. Research suggests that the gap doesn’t stay that wide- that it shrinks as women enter the middle. The truth is that women take on a disproportionate share of child-rearing tasks. A survey found that in two-parent households, women did more than men when it came to managing kids’ schedules, taking care of them when they are sick and handling the majority of the household chores. Our society has put the burden of these responsibilities over women, even if women are working outside the home. These additional responsibilities into hertz Saman more than others.