Boys & Girls: we're not the same

This week I want to talk about a sort of sensitive subject at this day n age...

Gender roles. The differences. And yes, there are differences. 

During my studies and research and many classes that I have taken and discussed this subject in, I have found that certain differences are there in our brains and genetic makeup that make us girls different from you boys.

I think we can come up with the obvious differences right off the bat that in most cases are true.

Female traits:                                                                    Male traits:

  relationship & detail oriented                                            action & spatial oriented

  communication driven                                                       task driven

  naturally nurturing                                                             naturally provider

In one of my sociology classes we discussed these differences and gender roles. We watched a video where they did an experiment on the differences between the genders by interacting with an observing a bunch of young kids. What I thought was really interesting that they found kind of goes along with what we found in class; it seemed that with the children whose parents made sure to raise them "gender neutral" and give them gender neutral toys all the time, still had the same habits and played the same way the rest of their gender did. If the boys were handed pink girl toys, they would still find a way to play with them in a destructive way or knock things down with them. The girls, no matter the differences in the way that they were raised and no matter the toy, still somehow turned their playing into a type of role playing, like house, teacher, etc. They were still more focused on the nurturing aspect throughout their playing.

The parents, when they viewed these results, were more or less surprised by what they learned. This was mostly because some parents had tried hard to raise their kids a gender neutral way so that their kids could learn to and feel comfortable with identifying with whichever gender they later decided they identified with. But the studies and observations showed that whichever way these kids were raised did not make a difference. It seems to be just a part of their genetic make up that they are born with. Boy and girls are just different.

We can act toward our children in the same way, but they react differenly.
And the most important thing that I think we need to remember is that we need both of these roles in life. There is a reason we are created differently - to balance each other out.

We need to "complete, not compete with the opposite sex".