MY GENDER DEVELOPMENT AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE WOMEN IN COMTEMPORARY SOCIETY SOCIOLOGY 2000 Gender Role development / Agents of gender Just like almost all people my gender role development to have been immensely influenced by the same prevalent agents: Family, Peer group, school and media. Born and raised in Nigeria (West Africa), immersed and socialized through my teenage years in a different culture makes the fact that I turned out not very different in my thoughts, actions …showed first 75 words of 1711 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1711 total…ese traits and interests are stereotypically male and my likes may have been shaped to a great by the school and their emphasis and my peers. I have no doubt that the ability comes natural. I also do not think engineering is a profession for males but one that either sex can succeed but I do however realize and appreciate the inherent advantage of being male in this field because of the biases in society.