By Stacie Marie-Luce While social norms expect women to be beautiful, successful and maternal, they demand that men constantly prove their masculinity. Today’s society, in which women are beginning to take stronger leadership roles in their careers and therefore outperform men, tends to challenge the concept of virility. This contemporary questioning of gender roles has […]
Rina Factor/ Contributing Writer Gender roles have played a major role in families. I remember when my mom first started working, my dad would come to pick us up from school and someone jokingly remarked, “Hey Mr. Mom.” Men are not traditionally seen as responsible for making a home or taking care of the children. […]
Take a step into English 101 for a second: a pronoun, according to the Cambridge English Dictionary, is “a word that is used instead of a noun or a noun phrase” and can show possession. “ S h e , ” “ h e r , ” “ h e ” a n d “him,” […]
Belen Sassone/ Contributing Writer Gender roles have always played a big part on how society operates. From the moment a baby is born, most parents choose how they’ll raise them solely based on their sex. Girls have always been taught to follow different rules than boys, and vice versa. As a kid, I refrained from […]
Clara Barros/ Contributing Writer Filling out forms is always an obnoxious task for everyone, but for people who study humanities or social sciences, it is particularly annoying whenever we run into that part that says “Gender” and then asks you to check “Female” or “Male.” The confusion between sex and gender is a very common […]
Leslie Banco/Staff Writer Smoothies are a delicious drink and fun to make, and are consumed by both men and women. However, smoothies are regarded with a kind of femininity that can only be attributed to women, versus a protein shake normally being attributed to mostly men consuming them. Therefore, does that mean smoothies are feminine […]
Leslie Blanco/Staff Writer Gender. Male. Female. What roles are assigned thus? Has much changed in this day and age? Men have always been viewed as the breadwinners, powerful leaders, executors of action, and free to express their creativity in outlets such as writing, art, music and theater without ridicule. What about the roles assigned to […]
