Hello Class! Blog post 1

Hello Class!!
Gender roles have strastically changed within the past 50 years, because today many of the gender roles that were mainly focused towards women are now pressured among men. I grew up with my dad working seven days a week and my mom being a typical American house wife. She took care of the kids, cooked, cleaned, did the grocery shopping and even yard work. When my father got home from work my mother made sure his plate was warm and his glass of skim milk was chilled and waiting for him at the dinner table. As he walked into the door he said "Hi Honey" and she replied with "how was work, Honey". This is how i learned gender roles as i grew up.
       One specific experience from my childhood stands out, when my parents made sure i knew my roles as a female and sister. When i was 4 years old i remember playing in the living room with my older brother and he was playing with his G.I. Joe soldiers and i was playing house with my barbies. I remember thinking how i would like to get my hands on some of my brothers toys because they looked fun and different from my barbies that i loved. I grabbed my brothers G.I. Joe doll and put it in my barbie house, and when my mom saw this she took it away and said little girls dont play with soldiers, those are "boy" toys. This experienced shaped what i thought boys were allowed to play with, and what activities they could engage in, and what activities as a girl i was allowed to play. I was told and taught at a young age how to play house because i was a girl.
     As a female today, playing house can involve men too. The recent economic crisis has caused both parents in a household and even the husband to stay home and "play house". I tink the roles should be split personally but I recently had a comment made to me by my boyfriend that related to gender roles and the expectations of myself as a woman. We were having a conversation about cooking and he insulted my cooking skills and said you better learn how to cook, because when your married and you become a mother you will be doing all the cooking. This comment offended me, just because im a woman doesnt mean ill spend the rest of my life cooking, especially if i become a wife and mom.  Therefore some gender norms have changed and some are still set in stone.