Ever since the beginning of humanity, certain roles have been placed on us. Some of these roles apply to gender, sexuality, education, work, social, and many others. Society has created these roles in order to restrict certain people from doing certain things. According to Wikipedia, a gender role is described as "a theoretical construct in the social sciences and humanities that refers to a set of social and behavioral norms that, within a specific culture, are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex." Gender roles, than are socially powered expectations of the people around you that you are taught, yourself. Gender roles are one of the earliest things people learn; children are capable of identifying gender roles as early as the age of three. Just over this last weekend I went Halloween costume shopping with my five year old cousin. As I walked down the many aisles of costumes I noticed that a lot of the Halloween costumes for males allow them to be anything they have ever dreamed of, ninjas, superheroes, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, rock stars, etc. When looking at the female options this also held true, but I also saw that a lot of the costumes let females be whatever they wanted to be as long as it was appealing to the male point of view. Gender roles can sometimes be invisible boxes placed over male and female that are exceedingly restricting. Gender roles have however, slowly throughout the decades, been less restricting. The traditional gender roles say that women need to stay inside doing all the housework, taking care of the children, cooking all the meals, cleaning, and most important, take care of her husband. Traditional gender roles for men include, take on the hard jobs, making repairs, head of the household, working in politics, and obtaining an education. These traditional roles have portrayed women as weak, emotional, gentle, and so unstable that always need to be leaning on som