gendernormativity
Gender normativity refers to the social expectations that individuals should conform to culturally defined roles, behaviors, and attributes associated with their perceived gender. It often centers on a binary understanding of gender, though norms can vary across cultures and historical periods. Normative expectations prescribe activities, occupations, emotions, dress, and interpersonal conduct deemed appropriate for men or women, and they are reinforced by family socialization, education, media, religion, law, and peer networks.
Norms differ across societies and intersect with other identities such as race, class, sexuality, and disability.
The impact of gender normativity is mixed. It can contribute to social cohesion and predictability, but it
In scholarly discourse, gender normativity is studied within sociology, anthropology, feminist and queer theory, and gender