Gender roles

Gender roles are so called " assumed rolls that. They especially influence relationships between men and women.Gender roles have been changing in Western society in recent decades, and generally have become more flexible. However, traditional gender roles still have some influence.For example, it used to be expected that men would experiment sexually before marriage, but that women would not. Women who went against this expectation were considered "loose" or "fallen" women, while men who went against the expectation were considered less than manlyYears ago another expectation was that women were supposed to get married and stay home to raise a family. The man was expected to go out to work to support his family. Today there is more sharing of family and household responsibilities, and both males and females are working in less traditional careers. For exaple we haveboth male and female nurses, firefighters, engineers, dentists etc.