Today, and more prevalently in the past, gender stereotyping takes place in many aspects of everyday life, such as the media and normal social interactions. Gender roles assign specific requirements and expectations of each sex, for example, a popular gender role for women is that they tend to get emotional more so than men. It is clearly obvious that this is incorrect due to the inevitable diversity of the human race, yet many people truly believe that these expectations set in place for the men and women of the world help maintain a balanced social hierarchy. Society has become more receptive to changing these prehistoric ways of thinking with the help of feminism and activists who strongly believe in the social, political, and economic equality of the genders. The ignorance of people who believe that there are set requirements in order to belong to a certain gender is incomparably high, and these individuals need to understand how degrading roles can seem to others and how their demeaning characteristics do not prove true to all members of a certain sex.
Although some of the characteristics that are included in these gender roles are neutral and not demeaning, most of them hold a negative connotation about that gender. These expectations hold men and women back from expressing their individual qualities while shaming their role in society. For example, in the past when religion was the main priority in a society, women were often looked down upon because the Bible stated that the woman was made from man. This stereotypical assumption has carried over to present day where in some religions do not allow women to have the same rights as men. Their role is society is only to reproduce and please their husbands, which is by far the most insensitive, cruel, and self-centered role to ever place upon a human. Women have the same mental capacity and ability to succeed in life as men do, and physical differences do not affect those qualities in any way, shape, or form.