gender conformity
Meeting sex expectations
Gender conformity is behaving, dressing, and presenting oneself in ways that match social expectations for one's sex.
A boy who plays sports and avoids crying conforms to masculine norms; a girl in dresses who defers to others conforms to feminine ones.
The term often appears in discussions of how such expectations are learned, enforced, or resisted: Schools reward gender conformity from an early age.
- social normsShared behavioral expectations
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- expectationsBeliefs about future outcomes
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
- binaryConsisting of two parts
masculine · feminine · roles · stereotypes · passing · cisgender · heteronormative · fitting in · fitting · compliance · toe the line · pressure · appearance · behavior · policing · socialization · blending · mainstream
- gendermale, female, masculine, feminine, man
- gender rolesmasculinity, femininity, traditional roles, domestic roles, family roles
gender conformitygender nonconformity
Diverging from expected roles
gender nonconforming · gender variance · gender bending · gender fluidity · androgyny
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