Adolescent Friendship and the Role of Gender - Assignment Example

Download file to see previous pages A respectable woman is to be a good housewife and a careful mother, while her husband must maintain the family. It seems to be an old-fashioned stereotype now. A huge number of modern families may illustrate this. The task of many husbands is to take care of children, while their wives adopt the role of breadwinners. Statistic data may illustrate this:
Thus, precious few people are surprised to hear that a wife earns more than her husband does. It seems to me that this tendency roots in adolescence or even in childhood. The aim of most young people is to build up a successful career in the future. Earlier it was accepted to think that high ambitions are more typical and even natural of men, rather than of women. This is not the case in our time. I notice such a tendency among my friends – girls usually pay much more attention to their studies than guys. As they say, they must think about their future career in advance. At the same time, most guys seem to be quite careless about this. Such a tendency may partially be prescribed to the fact that girls are proven to grow up faster than boys, both physically and mentally (Bergland, 2013). It seems to me, however, that certain feminist ideas exert much more influence in this case. Anyway, such girls are quite likely to become successful business-ladies in future.
One more thing which helps girls and guys become friends is their similar hobbies. Surprisingly, a lot of my female friends adore football, basketball, and even hockey, though all these games are traditionally associated with men. For example, as statistics show, in 2012 soccer was the third most played team sport by high school girls – almost 1,5 million school girls tried this game only in the US (NFHS, 2011). 
When it comes to the pastime, it is also necessary to mention computer games and computer skills in general.     ...Download file to see next pagesRead More