Title: Gendered sexuality - Wikipedia
Headings: Gendered sexuality
Gendered sexuality
Contents
Gender and sex in gendered sexuality
Sexual orientation and gendered sexuality
Sociocultural perspective
Social role theory
Sexual double standard
Research
Social constructionism
Research
Objectification theory
Mass media
Health consequences
See also
References

Content: This societal expectation influences the behaviors of men and women seeking marital status. Subject-related aspects
This final postulate rests on the individual, or the subject, and how much a person strives to meet societal gender norms. There are several theories under the label of sociocultural perspectives which have been theorized to influence gendered sexuality. Social role theory
Social Role Theory dictates that people are a product of societal social roles set in place via cultural traditions, whereby society instructs all individuals what roles are appropriate for which individuals under particular circumstances. Social role theory can dictate many different types of social roles, in particular, gender roles. These gender roles imply that men and women have their own particular roles assigned to them via their sex, and that these roles are typical and desirable of their particular sex. Gender roles are both restrictive and opportunistic, whereby they dictate an individual's potential through their identification as male or female. In the Western context, this can be seen particularly through the historic gendered division of labour where men and women are fit into different professional roles dictated by their physical capabilities, typically via sex. Vanwesenbeeck suggests that: "... It's not the biological potential, or sex, per se that causes gender (role) differences to emerge, but the way society differentially treats these potentials" (p. 888).