May 23, 2024 Gender Norms of the Chicanx and Latinx Community Like many cultures, there are specific gender roles and expectations built into communities and families that create the foundation of culture and stereotypes. This aids in the preservation of culture, familial expectations, and traditions that are passed from generation to generation, from fathers to sons, mothers to daughters, men to men, and women to women. In this essay, I will compare these culturally unique gender roles and stereotypes created by the Chicanx and Latinx communities, and how they have evolved into today’s newer generation. To look at the creation of Chicanx and Latinx gender roles and stereotypes that created unique societal norms within the community for generations, we have to examine the influence and decisions made that…show more content… Therefore, it is not uncommon to see fathers being absent from their children’s lives. While women and girls are expected to keep their chastity and innocence by limiting their time of leisure outside the home, it is also not uncommon to see women and girls from the Chicanx and Latinx community suffer from mental health issues compared to their male counterparts. Consequently, we can see the comparative differences that Chicanas and Latinas face due to the gender roles and stereotypes created by them compared to their male counterparts. What today's generation of Chicanx and Latinx people are experiencing is generational or transgenerational trauma. That is, by definition, trauma that is passed down from one generation that has experienced trauma to the next that hasn’t experienced it firsthand (Jurado and Loya). This new generation has shifted its attitude and mindset to address and acknowledge the previous generations' sacrifice, trauma, and influences that the new generation demands to break and heal. Understandably, so, as there are vast amounts of opportunities and paths for the new generation to take compared to the past
