Gender Roles 

Gender roles. do you think because you are a man that you can be a stay home day that you have to be so called manly and go out and be the bread winner and be the only one to provide. that women cant go out in the work force and make more than the man and let the man take care of the kids.women have to cook clean and raise the kids by her self, this is so called gender roles is not  right everyone can do anything man or female and in the story's we have been read there is endless examples of gender roles but the story where gender roles is the main topics is "Girl" by Jamaica 

Kincaid. this story is about how a girl is growing from a girl to a woman and on her way through growth , her mother is teacher her things she cant and shouldn't do because she is a girl. so in the beginning of the story her mom was teaching her proper  edict how to walk and that girls go to church on Sundays but also how girls shouldn't  play with boys in the dark because it not lady like. so the next phase in the girls life is teenage like 17 and 18 years old the typicality age where girl and boys start to like each other and show emotion. well her mother let her know that you shouldn't show to man boys attention because you do not want people knowing you are a so called hoe and that if you finally find the right guy that he should only benefit you and that through all them year when she was younger she was just prepping g her to be a great wife how to clean iron cook sweep the corner of the house etc. all because  this is what girl do so through the story her mom was prepping her to do what people girl should do which was putting her in a typical gender role she didn't teach her to go for what she wants and how to do hard work gets success in anything she taught her to be a stay at home mom because that is what society thought women should do which is a gender role.would you teach you daughter to just do that how to serve a man or will you teach her how to be independent and how to go get what she wants?