Will the term 'gender roles' still exist in 50 years?

I think we will always have our ideas of what we think is feminine and masculine. I think the definition of gender roles may change, but general attitudes may stay the same.

I think it will really fade away. I think that would be a positive development. However, even if 98% of the full-time parents are female, we as a society will pretend that it isn't so and pretend that no one spouse is more likely than the other to raise children and forgo a paycheck. This will lead to confusion as we realize that divorced mothers are living in poverty and divorced fathers are not, since we won't admit the obvious. Of course, this is exactly how it is now, so might as well do away with the outdated terminology as well.

Short answer? They still will exist, whatever we decide to call them. And, we will still pretend that they do not exist 50 years from now, or that they can be overcome by the society which tries hard enough.

I believe it will exist until a substantial evolutionary change happens, like 10,000 years from now. The line will become thinner, but will basically always be there. In the coming years, it will become obvious to honest people that women have achieved at least equality with men, all things considered,.....so gender roles will become more of a choice to joke about.

Of course it will be. Despite the attempts to crisscross the gender barrier in many fields, the most emblematic roles are still heavily dominated by either women or men.

Take nurses (nurturers) and firemen (heroes) for example. Even in 100 years, these jobs will still be heavily skewed gender-wise.

In the US, this will mean less than it does now, but i believe that there will still be gender roles, and worse, people who think biology is destiny.

However, if you were in a less industrialized country, i think that the gender roles would still be quite strict, very obvious, even in 50 years.

Oh - this includes people using a different phrase, but one that means exactly the same thing as "gender roles."

Yes, but they may call it something else.

I was thinking about writing a sci fi story about a species with triple-strand DNA - and that required three sexes to procreate. Thus the creature would have 3 different bio-genders.

It would be interesting to create three sets of 'nomal behavior' for each of the three genders, and illustrate the issues that emerge between them.

Aside from the biological destiny " straw man " erected by the first answerer, there will always be sexual variance as long as we are of the human species. And that will have effects on the fuzzy category, " gender roles ". Much more than you " social constructionists " could even imagine in your untutored minds.

unfortunately I think it will mean something in the future possibly not what it means now or meant before...

in some ways it would be nice to just obliterate the concept of gender from society =/...

then if there's no gender there's just humans and homosexuals aren't a different group than hetrosexuals or even a different concept...

it'd be good to obliterate the concept of gender...

you love who you love not matter what they look like or what organs they do or don't have...

but I don't think that'll happen any time soon =/...

so it will mean something... but it will hopefully be illdefined...

Yes,

The bible clearly spells out gender roles. As long as there is a God and his word "gender roles" will always exist.

i sure hope not.

i think there will still be an understanding or an association with maybe not so much male/female but estrogen/testosterone/progesterone and the effects they have on our bodies, our emotions, our cycles.

i hope we have a better understanding of what rigid aspects of these roles are simply the cause of learned environments. a nature/nurture issue. i hope we take the time to understand and reconsider our definitions.