Gender Identity

Gender identity has a major role in our lives for as long as I can remember, whether its through people telling stories of how boys and girls used to be differentiated between or the media, and even through my own eyes we see it everywhere although we don't want to. But what exactly is gender identity? Well as Google and its defined as " gender identity is a person's private sense and subjective experience of their own gender." Its our social and legal status and boys and girls, men and women. Its how you feel about and express your gender.


Some ways that we see gender identity is in jobs, where males tend to get paid more then females sometimes even for the same job position. An example would be actors and actresses many times I have read about how actors get paid more then the actresses just because that's how its always been. In countries like India and many other eastern countries people still think that if your pregnant with a child that is a girl it is better just to kill/abort them because they won't be able to provide for there family when they're older and they're not as good and hardworking as boys are which is not true at all. I feel that no matter what gender you re you should be loved and treated equally.

Stereotypes of males and females:

Males 
-if your a male you like the colour blue and its just a "boy colour"
-if your a male your favourite animal is a dog
-your into rap music
-your a "breadwinner" (making lots of $$$)
-your emotionally and physically stronger

Females
-if your a female you like the colour pink and its just a "girl colour"
-if your a female you love cats
-your favourite music is pop