What does it mean to be a woman or man? The answer is much more complicated. Gender is not determined by sex organs but includes complex beliefs, behaviors, and characteristics. However, gender roles are solely shaped by society and are expectations for men and women. Such include how a man or woman should dress, behave, and even the jobs they can perform. Gender socialization in learned from parents, religion, culture, as well as other media, such as music. Throughout history, music has been an important contribution to lives and influenced our society in distinctive ways. This discussion stresses how popular music can play a role in the development and reinforcement of negative stereotypical notions of gender roles. Typically, men are portrayed as dominant, brave, powerful, and sexually aggressive. While depictions of women as beautiful, submissive, dependent, and sexual objects. …show more content…
First, music influences important aspects of child and adolescent development. Second, men and women are represented in stereotypical ways that reinforce views of gender identity and traditional gender roles. Third, while music is such an important aspect of life, the misrepresentation of gender may distort the perceived normal and desirable characteristics for men and women. Moreover, these depictions have negative effects on our society as a whole. The discussion of stereotypical gender roles has gained in popularity recently. Correspondingly, the evaluation of these messages and social norms has resulted in advances of breaking gender stereotypes. However, music continues to portray both women and men in stereotyped ways that delay further progression in gender equality. While these traditional gender roles are challenged, the influence of mainstream culture remains