Analysis of gender roles in modern family

On the contrary, men have always been represented as the breadwinners and those who have all the solutions for the families. Interestingly, these stereotypes are still being perpetuated in developed countries where women are greatly empowered. Nonetheless, there are films that have attempted to break these stereotypes by portraying sexes in unconventional ways. The sitcom Modern Family is an example. However, despite trying to depict gender roles in a family in a modern way, as its name suggests, the film still falls back to the traditional stereotypes. First, despite her sophistication in dressing, Gloria is evidently less conversant with English. Moreover, she is evidently much younger than her husband and settled on being a second wife. Also, she seems not to have any ambitions of being more than a housewife; she mostly spends her money and time on maintaining her appearance rather than investing or learning.

Thus, the creators might have wanted to portray her as nothing more than a trophy wife which is a stereotypical representation of Latino women in the country. Conspicuously, Gloria clearly struggles to find and pronounce various English words throughout the film. Notably, despite Mitch and Cam being married, Mitch’s father holds the opinion that his son is feminine and would often reveal his disappointment with him for being gay. This reinforces the idea that most people have on gay people that they are less masculine than heterosexual men (Lloyd, and Levitan). The aim of the paper was to analyze how he film Modern Family reinforces the traditional view of gender roles despite featuring 21st century families. The paper first illustrates that most women, especially the wives of the main characters are depicted as traditional wives whose roles are only limited to being housewives.