Family plays a key role in establishing gender roles from a young age. Traditionally, males are given more freedom and encouraged to pursue higher education and careers, while females take on domestic duties like cooking, cleaning, and childcare. Physical appearance expectations also differ by gender, with females expected to be thinner and shorter. The family influences behaviors, marriage expectations, access to education, and career choices in a way that promotes inequality between males and females from an early stage of life.

1. GENDER ROLES –
INFLUENCE OF
FAMILY

2. Family is an important institution which determine the role for
each gender from the early stage of a person’s life. Fairly
speaking the gender inequality starts from the time of birth
itself.
Here are few examples for this
argument.

3. AT THE TIME OF BIRTH
We have witnessed the cruelty
of female infanticide in many
parts of our country
There are discrepancies right
from selecting the toys dress
etc. for male and female kids

4. The family as the first
institution assigns dress
code, style of hair cut etc.
to an individual as per the
unwritten rules of the
society.
DRESS, HAIRSTYLE ETC….

5. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
There are expectations in the
height, weight of female and
male. Female are expected
to be thin and short
compared to men.

6. BEHAVIOR AT HOME
The female are expected to do
laundry, cooking, washing dishes,
cleaning , caring the children and aged
people at home etc. where as men are
expected to earn money to the family.

7. MARRIAGE

8. FREEDOM
Women are given lees freedom
compared to men in the all aspects at
home.eg. Decision making,
determining life partner, accessing
higher education, travel etc.

9. EDUCATION
There are areas in India, where
female children are rejected
school education. usually parents
wanted their daughter get
married soon but wanted their
son to do higher studies for
getting better jobs.

10. JOB EXPECTATION
Family introduce to career set the
ground work for a way of thinking
about future jobs. Traditional
occupation for women include
secretaries, house wives, teachers
and nurses; male occupation
include police officers,
construction workers, truck
drivers, CEOs and bosses.

11. Prepared by
Rukhiya. P
Keyi sahib
training college