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Gender-Role Expectations Affected My Mother's Development

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Gender-role expectations were much more sexist in my parents’ generation. My mother grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, around that time the consensus was that males were the dominant breadwinners and women were the submissive stay at home wives. My mother has told me that her father had once told her to return a pair of jeans that she had bought, his belief was that only boys wore pants. The family being the most important agent of primary socialisation (furze 2014, p.85) meant that this early influence of gender roles affected my mother’s development as a result, she chose to become a stay at home mother rather than pursuing a career.

Whilst there are still typical gender roles portrayed in the media that surround me, I believe the media has

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