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There is one perpetuated gender agenda that has been placed on women for many years. Girls are expected to grow up, be intelligent and skillful, get a husband, get pregnant and raise babies. I want to talk about how no one tells you about the after effects of having this little bundle of joy. During pregnancy most women do gain a little bit of weight, but that's not that uncommon, it's to be expected. What seems to be expected of these women more than anything is the "body bounce back" after having the baby. All of this after some bones have shifted and or stretched and the skin has stretched out. Legs have swollen, hair has fallen out. While the dad bod is perfectly fine in the public eye; all he did was just eat too much or had one too many beers. It seems that the dad bod is a sign of masculinity, and the body bounce back is what passes for femininity. Masculinity is defined broadly as "the set of images, values, interests, and activities held important to a successful achievement of male adulthood" (Jeffords, 1989, quoted in Ashcraft & Flores, 2000, p. 3).

Gender is a social construct which society uses to define male and female (Brooks & Hebert 2006). We were taught at a very young age that it's our job as the women of the house to have dinner ready. The man of the house should never have to wait for his dinner when he comes home from work. What happens when the man of the house gets home first? Does that then mean we should have prepared his dinner before leaving for our daily jobs? Why is it that the man of the house can't prepare dinner before the woman of the house gets home from work? I feel that gender roles in this situation should be an equally shared role.

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