Gender Interview Assignment

Gender Interview Assignment: The Meaning of Gender as a Social Construct

In this assignment two different people were interviewed and their responses are compared to help answer how gender is a social construct. I will also reflect on them by my own experiences. A series of questions were asked and a conversation grew from them, Some more question where added that I thought would fit in. I interview two girls around the same age, but one is American raised where the other is raised in another country and also is Muslim, I wanted to see how those factors affect their views. To begin I interview a 23-year-old American female who grew up in Vancouver WA, with her first gen American parents. I started by asking her about gender and the interview, she seemed okay and open about the topic. I asked about her growing up as a female and she said she felt equal because she grew up as a tom boy, played with both cars and dolls. She had evenly balanced play time and responsibility time but, very strict parents. I asked about expectations of her growing up as a girl and she felt her parents where open to her doing what she wanted, sports, games, activities, etc... Played more sports than her brothers did.
Gender is a social contruct because we all grew up with this knowlage passed down from our parents that boys fix thing and protect whereas girls clean, cook, and care. I do notice that in the western society that is starting to die down because there is more awareness and parents are starting to be more open to allowing their children the option of doing what they feel is best. Even tough in a Muslim religion gender is equal, the culture is what effects how boys and girls are raised, and culture is a social construct the same as culture. One similarity between many cultures is how they have a social construct of expectations of how girls are raised and how boys are