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gender role
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Noun1.gender role - the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness; "your gender role is the public expression of your gender identity"
role - normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting; "what is your role on the team?"


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The study is published online in Springer's journal Sex Roles.
mission statement departed from identity politics and crossed into a kind of proto-queer theory with a concise set of statements: "Because our oppression is based on sex and the sex roles which oppress us from infancy, we must explore these roles and their meanings.
One study of gifted high-school students concluded that females were more contemporary in their attitudes toward sex roles and career plans than males (Dunnell & Bakken, 1991).
 
 
 
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