Gender roles are tools used to indentify a person. They are often constructed based on a person's culture and environment. A person's sex is often relevant when concluding one's gender roles within many cultures and environment. The sex of a person is the biological makeup of one's body. Many people associate gender roles with the traditional roles of males and females. The development of gender roles are being tested because not everyone is just a man or just a woman.
Gender Role Development Theories
Psychoanalytic/ Identification Theory
- Sigmund Freud found psychoanalytic theory
- the theory of personality organization
- within this theory it is believed that gender identification is a process uprooted from the Oedipus Complex
- Sigmund Freud found psychoanalytic theory
- the theory of personality organization
- within this theory it is believed that gender identification is a process uprooted from the Oedipus Complex
How will understanding gender role development help me throughout my career? : Throughout my planned career as a nurse many different types of people are going to enter my office. I personally feel that it is important to accommodate people as best as I can. It is also important that I realize that not everyone within society is going to be a cookie cutter man or woman. There will be people whom don't associate with the traditional gender rules. As a nurse it is within my civic duty to respect the person whom is with in my care as a person and to the best of my ability seek to accommodate there person with out making them feel as if they do not fit into our society.