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How are "gender roles" formed?

Gender roles refer to the normative patterns of behavior, responsibilities and even status and power that are expected of men and women in a certain social and cultural environment. Since childhood, through the family's indoctrination, school training and social arrangements, gender behavior, consciously or unconsciously in accordance with the prevailing pattern, the formation of each person's gender roles. Physiologically, each person's gender is determined at the time of the mother's conception and is defined by his or her own physiological structure and cannot be chosen. It determines that women can have children and men cannot, which is a biological role. However, the social division of labor by gender is the social expectation of different roles for men and women, such as the traditional "men dominate outside, women dominate inside". Modern society is a society of equality between men and women, and the differences between men's and women's gender roles are tending to narrow and the roles are close. However, this does not mean that the differences in gender roles between men and women can be completely eliminated, and that the roles of men and women will be exactly the same, or even physiologically indistinguishable. The argument and practice of seeking to equate men with women is also against the laws of nature and society. Therefore, modern secondary school students should have a scientific understanding of the gender roles of men and women, and should abandon the traditional concept of inequality between men and women while not going to the other extreme. In the interaction between young boys and girls, gender role awareness is clearly manifested in the "gender identity". Generally speaking, a healthy and normal student's "gender identity" should be consistent with his or her biological nature and with the social goal of equality between men and women. This should be intentionally trained in early childhood. In adolescence, gender identity is reinforced. Some male adolescents admire women's appearance and style, and consciously or unconsciously imitate women's attitudes and behaviors; some young girls are not psychologically prepared for biological changes. They feel burdened by menstruation, pregnancy or other female physiological phenomena and wish they were boys. All these may cause them to have difficulty in accepting their biological gender identity, and may even result in the so-called "masculinization" of women or "feminization" of men. For example, some girls only want to socialize with boys, and do not take the gender role characteristics of girls in the interaction, but behave similarly to boys in their behavior, and like them to touch and roll, and even fight and curse, becoming a real "tomboy"; some boys mix themselves with girls, coy, a look of "sissy". Some boys mix themselves with girls and are coy and "effeminate". But on the other hand, some men think that rudeness, aggressiveness and even violent behavior are "manly"; while women think that passive withdrawal, submissiveness and lack of progress are "womanly". These are all blind identifications with the traditional social concept of gender roles. Gender role awareness is an important reflection of the content and level of socialization of a person, but also one of the signs of mental health. Young boys and girls in modern society. Should be biophysical, psychosocial and cultural, economic, social participation and even political, in accordance with the scientific, ethical, in line with the requirements of the times of the comprehensive role identity.