Gender Socialization

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Parents play an important role in shaping the careers of their children based on their gender. Since learning is cognitive, parents shape their children’s behaviors through conditioning by giving instructions and punishments to reinforce the learning process. Parents highly influence the choices of an individual. The parents are value socializers in shaping the careers their children will pursue (Cristina, 2015). Gender determines what career to pursue and influences both the female and males in society. Parents help children to realize a sense of themselves and what society expects of them as they grow. Through the process of socialization, children can associate with their gender roles.

Parents expose their boys and girls to activities related to their social sex-roles at different stages of life. This helps them later realize themselves and compel them to choose careers that conform to the activities they have been subjected to as they were developing. The career of the parents can also influence the future career of the children. Some children will prefer to choose the same careers their parents are undertaking.

Masculinity and feminism have been pivoting occupation sex segregation.  Masculinity is whereby the male gender is perceived to do certain jobs well than the female gender, whereas feminism is where the female gender is perceived to do certain jobs well than the male gender. According to the clip-on numbers, the audience has a large number of males than females. This shows that different occupations or career professionals have been perceived mostly to be pursued by a certain gender.

Occupation sex segregation has been gradually changing. Women are entering large numbers in the labor market through the degree of their participation vary between occupations (Bagøien, 2020). Although men are considered perfect in some fields, such as mathematics and science, cognitive attributes, self-efficacy, and interests guide the occupational choice, exposing females to equal chances of competing with males in the job market. Employers are now looking for competencies, not gender-related stereotypes.

 

 

References

Bagøien, H. (2020). Occupational Attributes and Occupational Gender Segregation in Sweden: Does It Change Over Time? Frontiers in Psychology, 554.

Cristina, G. (2015). Parental support in adolescents’ career development: Parents’ and children’s perceptions. The Career Development Quarterly, 2-15.