gender expectations
Societal role norms
Gender expectations are the behaviors, roles, and characteristics that a society considers appropriate for people based on their sex.
These expectations vary across cultures and eras but typically prescribe how men and women should dress, speak, work, and conduct relationships.
She felt pressure from gender expectations to choose nursing over engineering.
The term often appears in discussions that critique such expectations as limiting or outdated, though some defend them as reflecting natural tendencies.
- masculinityMale gender characteristics
- man upEmbrace toughness, colloquially
- be a manExhortation to toughness
- femininityFemale nature or character
- breadwinnerPrimary household earner
stay at home mom · patriarchy · wage gap · sexism · body image · socialization · double standards · self-esteem · toxic · heteronormativity · emotional labor · caregiver · assertiveness · ladylike · modesty · dolls · power dynamics · dress
- gender rolesmasculinity, femininity, traditional roles, domestic roles, family roles
- sexismsexism, sex discrimination, male privilege, chauvinism, male chauvinism
- gendermale, female, masculine, feminine, man
gender expectationspersonal autonomy
Control over one's choices
self-expression · free expression · individual freedom · self-definition · personal agency
gender expectationsgender nonconformity
Diverging from expected roles
gender neutrality · gender fluidity · egalitarianism · queerness · androgyny
gender expectationsgender fluidity
Non-static identity category