Society has imprinted an image in people's minds of how the role of each gender should be interpreted. There are two recognized types of gender, a man and a woman, however there are many types of gender roles that a man or woman can take on or be placed into by society. Ideas about how one should act and behave are often ascribed by society based on gender, but these ascribed statuses and roles are sometimes unwelcome and people assume who they want to be as individuals going against the stereotypes established by society. society. This article will examine these roles in terms of how society views men and women in stereotypical ways, and how men and women view themselves and others in terms of typically attributed stereotypes, as well as their own opinions with a survey administered to ten individuals. What I hope to demonstrate is that, although stereotypes play a predominant role within our society, and therefore influence what people believe about each other in terms of their own and opposite genders, people all Within our society they are able to go against these attributed stereotypes and be who they want and that's fine. Through the use of the survey and my personal story regarding gender stereotypes, I think I can give a clear idea of ​​how stereotypes envelop our society and how people, freeing themselves from those stereotypes, are more individualistic. The differences between women and men are not exclusively biological. Our society's culture has established a set of unwritten cultural laws about how each gender should act, or in other words society has ascribed a stereotype. Men's gender identity has been that of masculinity, and masculinity is defined as referring to a man or things described as manly. But what does virile mean? He is a virile male if he is “Mr. Fix it,” or the athlete, or if he sits on the couch watching football on Sunday? This last statement is a male stereotype, which has existed for decades and is also current, but since the 1960s the role of men has started to change, although the stereotype has not changed to adapt it. Over the last 40 years we can see how men have taken on roles stereotypically attributed to women, roles including that of "stay-at-home mom", of which we can find an excellent example in the 1980s film "Mr..