Johnson was the middle child, fourth from the oldest out of all her brothers and sisters. ... Families actively play a role in gender-role-socialization by the ways in which they organize the environment for the child. ... Research has shown that a mother's child rearing style as well as her own beliefs on gender roles has a major influence on daughters. ... They had one child, her youngest son out of this union. ...

• Word Count: 1263
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... There was also the feeling for some that they were failing in child rearing. They were being told that the "most primary and inviolable of human ties was the one between mother and child" (Gilder 81). ...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Rome, women are viewed as unintelligent and child-like; incompetent to achieve political or military success. ... They are valued for their innate abilities of child rearing not for individual abilities. ...

• Word Count: 1499
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout many decades women have been struggling to be equal to men, both at home and in the work place. Women have come a long way and are certainly fighting to gain that equality, but gender roles are very important in our society. They have become important in life from birth, and society con...

• Word Count: 1851
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

For example, in most current and known historical cultures, martial combat has been seen as mostly (or only) appropriate for men, while child-rearing has been seen as mostly (or only) the domain of women. ... In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are supposed to encourage in that child. ...

• Word Count: 3294
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School