druz blog 1

One thing I took notice to was about gender-role socialization in chapter 2. Out of the three categories of gender-role learning the personality trait is what I most remember growing up. In my house everyone did their part of the chores. My mom did the cooking and just cleaned up around the house. My dad did the laundry and usually the unpleasant jobs like the bathrooms. My siblings and I did basically everything else like our rooms and usually the lawn work.
I was taught that everyone did their part to make the house a better place to live, even if my friends thought it was weird that I had to mow the lawn while my dad did the laundry. I'm sure that if I really wanted to I could have done whatever I chose. My point is that there were no gender-role chores in my family. It didn't matter that in society women are looked at to do the "house chores" while men do the lawn work. I was taught that there is nothing a man can do over a women, or even should do. This will help me I feel as a family consumer science teacher to treat all my students equally, male or female. I probably will have more females in my classes however I won't look at it as unusual if a male student wants to learn how to sew, because I was taught that it doesn't matter what your gender is.