Throughout human history, gender has played an important, if not the most important, role in human life. This is clearly a fork in the road at birth that will determine many things that you will almost never have any control over. What you wear, what you eat, what you do; everything is directly influenced throughout your life based on your gender. These “gender roles” have long been assigned without personal intervention, or even on the part of our parents. In fact, it dates back to almost prehistoric times to the beginning of our evolutionary chain. Regardless of more current laws that have incorporated these roles, I think it's obvious to say that we will always look at a man and a woman differently. It seems logical that they also communicate in very different ways, which they do. Now we all have expectations about gender roles. We all have an idea in our heads of what the “real American man” is. He must be certain that he is the main competitor. He can probably accomplish any task almost entirely on his own and always does it better than anyone else. A male child is raised to aspire to possess these qualities and therefore strives to display them in almost everything he does. Almost all “boy activities” revolve around some type of competition, always against each other. These range from recreational sports, like soccer and soccer, to silly games that boys play alone, like cops and robbers. Growing up in a highly competitive environment leads to standard characteristics that we say among adolescents to young men. Men tend to be honest, direct and factual. This leads to a communication environment where the main goal is to exchange information in order to solve a problem. This is where women will fit in... middle of paper... any corporate culture would even consider this innovative and highly effective. You see more rising female executives and more stay-at-home dads than any other generation. Mainly because now it's not out of the norm and both sexes are encouraged to explore all opportunities. Not just those historically limited to their gender. Obviously, it is almost impossible to escape these gender roles, but our society has shown great growth in social equality. We have become able to bridge opposite poles and have perhaps stronger communication than ever before in history. We are certainly born and raised to have certain traits, but more than ever, we have more choices to actually satisfy what we want for ourselves. The home is no longer a definitive place for women and the management office is no longer a private lounge for men..