Gender roles

Introduction:
Gender related issues are what have become dominant in our society. When we think of men’s role in today’s society, I personally think of a man that runs a household together with his wife. A couple that share equal authority on a household. A man’s identity can be defined by his solid and firm attitude and relationship towards his family, yet somebody that shows love and affection to his wife and kids without being afraid of what another man might say. Yet in today’s society men have taken many different roles and some affect their identities, relationships, and family life. In the book, Hombres y Machos, Mirandé weaves important issues in his analysis to examine how Hispanic and Latino men really act.
Machos and Machismo:
Men are given many different titles, but there is one in particular that defines a tough man that defends his masculine image, a “macho”. Macho is the proof of the existence of the “masculine cult” or assuming that the Lati...