Gender roles and conformity exist only because of societal pressures

What do you mean biological differences are not gender roles? The gender roles we have are based off of our biological differences, you can talk about gender roles and not take into account the biological differences. There is a vast amount of literature available on gender differences. Maccoby and Jacklin (1974) was an important comprehensive study on psychological differences. Contrary to what Roberts (1984) said about this study, there have been many advances since then in psychology to further refine the research on psychological differences. Maccoby and Jacklin (1974) pointed out two major gender differences; hostility and empathy. With respect to hostility, there was overwhelming evidence that men scored higher than women on most forms of expression of aggression. With respect to empathy, even though women scored higher on this trait than men the evidence was not conclusive. Since then studies by Antill (1983) and Wheeler et. al. (1983) provide very strong evidence that women have greater capacity for interpersonal relations and empathy than men. The works of Bem (1974, 1927, 1981), Spence et. al. (1975) Markus and Crane (1982) with respect to measurement of sex role self-concept and androgyny are an evidence of the recognition of the gender differences with respect to these two traits. As for your experiment I have heard about this study before and it is not news to me. The problem with this study is the fallowing: 1.The children being tested were 6-12 years old, children of this age have no clue what gender identity is or gender conformity. 2.When they ask why they chose to play with those toys and why they don"t play with them around other kids, the children did not say peer pressure or gender roles. They SPECIFICLY asked them if it was because of peer pressure or because of gender roles and the child just responded with a "yes" most of them probably not even having a clue what was going on. 3.If you lock a child in a room and leave him with only 3-5 toys to play with over a period of 30 minutes" chances are they will have played with all of them" 4.The experiment failed to tell us what toys they played with FIRST and what toys they were more interested in. 5.The experiment failed to describe HOW the child played with them and what they did with the toys. 6.The experiment was gathered from a total of 86 children" yeah" 7.The experiment was only conducted in Colorado, there results (however weak) could simply just have been a product of the area they live in. 8.We are talking about toys" toys" playing with toys or literally doing anything for entertainment is a pass time activity, just because you play with a toy, dose not explain your background as a child what toys your use to or anything that. 9.The point is that they are making the toys they play with, the dependent variable in this experiment. There are so many independent variables that this experiment. (age, race, environment, environment raised in, culture, experience with toys, ADD, ADHD, level of intelligence, level of maturity, reason for playing with the toy, how the child played with it, what the child is accustom to playing with, introvert or extrovert, etc") having so many independent variables makes this experiment absolutely meaningless. "Both want to do things the opposite gender does, and want to do their own thing, but feel they cannot due to pressures." So your saying that women don"t go into most of the science field because they feel they shouldn"t and not because men actually take up most of the population with higher than average IQ. So your saying that women don"t have jobs that involve operating heavy machinery because we tell them not to and not just because we actually tell everyone not to because those kinds of jobs tend to not have very good pay. So your saying that more men end up operating heavy machinery because they feel they have to and not just because they actually would rather be doing something else but it turns out they didn"t graduate with a high GPA because men also take up most of the population with a lower than average IQ. So your saying that it is our fault that we don"t have more women in the sciences and it"s not just a because LESS women WANT to be in the sciences. Or are you saying that more women aren"t in the sciences because we discourage them? Well frankly if you want to be in science go for it but if you have such little conviction that you could be discouraged by someone telling you that you aren"t supposed to be one, chances are you are doing us a favor by not becoming a scientist because then you end up with stupid bias experiments like the one you were talking about earlier. Oh S&#t, oh S#&t, oh you mother F&$%ing C0%k Sucking piece of S%#t the wage gap! Are you serious? I just got done disproving the wage gap in another debate! How does this crap keep coming up! Wait" earnings gap? The gap being based on career performance and career choice and not based on sexism? I take everything I said back, congratulations your probably the first person in the history of the world that has b1ched about a wage gap and didn"t blame it on sexism, males, or white supremacy. We can be friends now. No but seriously, he does bring up a good point that the wage gap is a result the difference in career choice" what my point is" what"s your point? What does making a different amount of money have to do with it being societies fault? Yes there are gender roles, and yes gender role favor different careers for different sex"s (the two different sex"s"two different sex"s...only two"two sex"s"only) but what prof do you have that it is societies fault and not just the physical, psychological, and biological differences in the (two) sex"s?... "it was found that 26% of nonconforming participants had at least mild to moderate depression, compared to 14% of the gender conforming peers." again, yes if you are a woman and you decide to shave your head to have an army haircut yeah you"re going get bullied or teased about it" because it looks F&#$ing gross" but again that is my opinion, based off of my attraction to women, which again is based off of biological urges and not peer pressure. Also the scientists who worked on this study (in my opinion) are idiots, I mean they got the date completely backwards. They didn"t prove that Non-conforming people are more prone to depression, they proved that people who are depressed are more prone to be non-conforming, there"s a difference. Also again this study has to many independent variables. Also AGAIN, even if being non-conforming results in depression, that still doesn't prove that gender roles are a product of society and not a product of the REAL differences in gender...(the two of them) "People resort to bullying tactics to get people to act in the preconceived way a man/boy or woman/girl is supposed to act." Uuuuum, no".no, no, no, no...no...no......no..........no. people bully other people because bulling makes you feel big, and makes you look big, bulling is a form of self-defense that you inherited from your environment. When someone picks on you it is not because they don"t like how you look, it"s not because they don"t like how you act, and its not because they don"t like anything about you. Non-conforming individuals who are picked on are not picked on because we don"t like them. They get picked on because when a bully wants to pick on someone, they pick on the people who stick out the most. They don"t pick on you because they don"t like the way you act, they pick on you because the way you act singles you out and makes you a target. Bullying and gender roles are not in any way connected in a bias form it is completely based on you being different and being different makes you a target, they probably have nothing against you, because bulling is not about you, it"s about them. In conclusion I hope next time you sight some sources that don"t take about the results of gender differences and instead actually try to prove that the gender differences are actually a result of society, and not a result of evolution. I suggest sighting something that shows that women or men want a profession more than the other, however the opposite gender ends up in that profession. Except you can"t because there is no such profession. You want to know why? Because if there is a profession that both genders want equally then biology will determine who gets it. In order to prove me wrong I will tell you exactly what to do. Find a profession that women want more than men, and that men don"t want, then show me a statistic that proves that men end up in this profession (remember women have to want it, and men have to not want it, and you have to have statistic that men get it more than women, also remember that people are likely to change their ideal profession 3 times in collage so make sure that the test results are from people out of college, if you can find this for me then I will forfeit the debate)