Sex roles and gender identity
... However, I belive that sex roles are based on social norms- the agreed upon standards of acceptance behavior within a society, which , in my opinion, is the most important issue that manages the adjustments between the tow sexes. Obviously, socialization is the general term used to describe the process of learning social roles. ... Based on this idea, Jessie Bernard assumes that "power and control are the real motives behind the division of sex roles".Since the male sex role has higher status, men obtain power over women and gain control of many of societys valued reawards. ... Considering that , tradiional sex roles are used just to kep women in their disadvantaged place.As a matter the mesage of the sex roles tereotypes can be condensed into two simple propositions: Boys are better, and girls are ment to be mothers.