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Lisa Kurts-Crume
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Date Posted: 21:40:20 07/07/10 Wed
In reply to:
Alicia Scott
's message, "Re: Assignment 5" on 11:19:23 07/06/10 Tue
>>Assignment 5 (Sex roles): July 9
>>Social learning theory suggests that parental modeling
>>of gender roles may play a critical part in gender
>>role identity development. Reflect on what kinds of
>>messages or models your own parents demonstrated about
>>gender. Post your thoughts and a list of common
>>household tasks delineated by gender.
>
>I was raised by both my mother and my father. The only
>sibling that I have is a younger sister, therefore
>there were no gender specific chores or roles in my
>home. My father loves being outside and working in the
>yard therefore my sister nor I ever had to do any
>chores outside besides pick up our pool toys from the
>yard. My sister and I did chores at home, but we never
>thought about gender stereotypes being applied to
>chores. I was supposed to clean my room, load the
>dishwasher, told the laundry, and tidy up the kitchen.
>My sister cleaned her room, took out the trash,folded
>the towels, and vacuumed. My father just naturally
>took care of all of the "boy" work outside. Myself or
>my sister were never girly-girls however and would
>have done the outside work if asked. I played softball
>all throughout my childhood and into highschool and my
>sister took dance and also played ball. We both also
>had all kinds of toys when we were younger from
>barbies, sports toys, and remote control monster
>trucks. This never seemed odd to us as my next door
>neighbor best friend (and still best friend to this
>day (: ) also only had a sister and played with the
>same toys as us. My parents also never forced any
>gender stereotypes on us. I believe that the way that
>they raised us would have been the same regardless of
>our gender.
>
>Some typical household chores one might assume
>girls/women would handle would be:
>cleaning
>cooking
>laundry
>childcare
>overall balance keeper
>
>Some typical chores that one might assume boys/men
>would handle might be:
>yard work
>fixing things
>killing bugs(!)
>teaching kids to play sports
>cooking (on the grill)
It is good that your parents didn't place stereotypical gender rules on you and your sister. I remember my sisters and I didn't do the yard work, but we sure had to pick up a bunch of sticks so they wouldn't hurt the mower. However, I wonder why you say that your father "naturally" took care of the boy work outside.
My sisters and I also split up the inside chores, like doing the dishes, cleaning the bathroom, sweeping and dusting. Our rooms were another matter completely.
Still, it sounds like you had a pretty good home life with parents who taught you responsibility without putting restrictions on you regarding toys and sports.
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