Being a woman included cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, and helping around the house. While my brothers could run and play without curfew or chaperones. Gender: The physical, behavioral, and personality traits that a group considers normal for its male and female members (Ferris & Stein 243). My parents told me when I was very young that girls shouldn't run in the streets and shouldn't date boys. When I was very young I wore fancy, sparkly shoes and was given Barbie dolls and girly toys to play with. When I was in primary school and first grade things changed, I liked running around and getting sweaty and dirty, that's when I decided to join basketball, my mom really supported me, even though I was the only girl on the team then I joined the cheerleading team, the jazzercise club, the choir, the spelling bee and the recycling club. I didn't let my gender stop me from doing the things I did