Parents of many children start establishing gender roles when children are first born. Parents establish gender roles by use of decorations in their child 's rooms. Being exposed to gender stereotyping at a young age can limit a child 's’ opportunities as a person. Children who have been taught that girls clean the house and boys take out the garbage are more likely to take a gender typical job. Boys and girls that are use to gender roles often feel what society expects them to feel. When males and females feel the same emotions their reactions are totally different. Because of gender stereotyping, males tend to be more passive with emotion, females being more open and expressive. Higher self esteem, more self identity, and better luck in love and relationship are some of the advantages of encouraging a non-gender stereotyped environment. So to go on about this essay, in much respect women and men both have stereotypes, right and wrong, and each have an affect on all of us …show more content…
Society, through many years of stereotype have put it upon young women that in the workforce women are treated unequally. “A successful girl must also master the ultimate boy skills of assertion, maybe even aggression.” Women in the workplace tend to be overlooked as a professional rather than men. Through this stereotype that women are weaker and can 't do as good a job as men, negative effects have poured down onto women in the sense that their job becomes more hard. They have to work harder to be noticed and to be acknowledged for the work they put in because most men feel that women are weaker physically and mentally than men, so they think less of women. This can also effect the longevity of women in the work environment negatively considering that it makes the competition harder, and soon make women believe there is no chance or no future with that corporation. Women everyday are proving stereotypes to be wrong, and yet they are still commonly mistaken as the complete truth. Some women are now making more income than their husbands, running in office for politics, and so much more. As for in the past, men would find all of this unusual that a woman would make more income than a man, or make it into higher official status than a man. And the only reason behind that is because the stereotypes were holding women back from doing what they wanted or