According to your comments, girls tend to be elegant, attractive, delicate, cosy, sensitive, patient, sociable, gentle, generous, understanding, dedicated and smiling. For their part, boys tend to act in order to be strong, handymen, competitive, seductive, confident, protective, resourceful, independent, authoritarian, courageous, ambitious and hard worker. These characteristics found among today’s young people are so-called stereotyped gender roles. These roles are established and valued by the society for many years. They are instilled throughout childhood and teenage years through the education, family, peers, community and pre-school and school environment. With traditional vision of gender roles, the expectations of girls and boys towards the opposite sex are clear as they encounter them since their young age, but they can restrict them, harming and disappoint them personally as well as in their romantic relationship. Thus, your role is to educate them that they can vary their attitudes by teaching them that a romantic relationship can be based on trust, honesty, respect, self-esteem, responsible and non-threatening behaviour, negotiation, equality, but also later on in their life, on an economic partnership, on shared responsibilities and on parental involvement, rather than on stereotyped gender roles. To help you in this educational approach, please take enough perspective to analyze your own vision of male-female relationships, regardless of the role you have with young people.
According to your comments, the girls and boys are not adopting traditional so-called trends. According to the traditional view, girls tend to be elegant, attractive, delicate, cosy, sensitive, patient, sociable, gentle, generous, understanding, dedicated and smiling. For their part, boys tend to act in order to be strong, handymen, competitive, seductive, confident, protective, resourceful, independent, authoritarian, courageous, ambitious and hard worker. These characteristics found among today’s young people are so-called stereotyped gender roles. They are instilled throughout childhood and teenage years through the education, family, peers, community and pre-school and school environment. With traditional vision of gender roles, the expectations of girls and boys towards the opposite sex are clear as they encounter them since their young age, but they can restrict them, harming and disappoint them personally as well as in their romantic relationship. So, if you cannot find behaviours specific to one sex or the other, it is probably a sign that they have acquired the necessary openness in order to develop their full potential and to develop and keep an equal healthy relationship. Thus, your role is to educate them that they can vary their attitudes by teaching them that a romantic relationship can be based on trust, honesty, respect, self-esteem, responsible and non-threatening behaviour, negotiation, equality, but also later on in their life, on an economic partnership, on shared responsibilities and on parental involvement, rather than on stereotyped gender roles. To help you in this educational approach, please feel free to take enough perspective to analyze your own vision of male-female relationships, regardless of the role you have with young people.
