Our Gender roles and its impact on our mental wellbeing
Do Gender Roles Influence Our Psychological Well-being? Pink and Blue gender reveal decor... Barbies or toy cars... nursing or engineering... gender roles seem to pervade every fabric of our society, and even when times have changed the rigidity of said roles, the weight of different gender roles relentlessly assert their presence. Other researchers in the field of social sciences and behaviour have argued whether nature or nurture influences gender roles, and psychologists have tried to look into their long-term effects on psychological well-being as well as mental health. What are Gender Roles? Most of us will take up multiple social roles throughout our lives- and that doesn't just include our professional roles. In our personal lives, too, we take up the responsibilities of being a child, friend, partner, parent, and an individual beyond being a student or job-specific roles we take up. When we dive into these roles in our lives, it is hard to ignore the differences in the soc...