Gender Roles

  List 10 characteristics and behaviors that you associate with being male and 10 characteristics and behaviors that you associate with being female in our society. Note the numbers of 10 characteristics from the 20 that you feel best apply to yourself. Did you choose any characteristics from your list for the other sex? If so, how many? provide an explanation. If you found most of the characteristics you chose for yourself were from your list for your own sex, are there any characteristics from the other list you wish you did have? Provide an explanation. Do you feel our society’s definitions of gender roles are preventing you from behaving or developing in the ways you’d most like to? Explain your answer.