They show how gender roles affect our childhood development (Iervolino, Knafo, & Plomin, 2005), how our willingness to conform to gender roles affects our work (Judge and Livingston 2008). , and how they affect the way we help each other (Eagly 2009). They can also have impacts on our mental health (Gregory, Wampold and Zamarripa 2003). It seems that the only aspect of our lives that they do not affect is our tendency toward certain types of prejudice (Stefurak, Taylor, and Mehta 2010). The question remains whether they harm our society. These gender roles manipulate the population into conforming to them and have shaped our society as it is. Gender roles are learned during childhood and development against them is referred to as atypical development (Iervolino, Knafo, & Plomin, 2005). These ideals of masculinity versus femininity impact our mental health, causing the way men show affection to be very refined and narrow (Gregory, Wampold, and Zamarripa 2003). As we move forward in life, our willingness to conform to these ideals affects our income, because men who conform will earn more and women who conform will earn less (Judge and Livingston 2008). The innate problem with conformity is that it deprives individuals of their freedom of expression; they want to be their own person. Forcing multitudes of people to conform or be ostracized is an incredibly arduous task and one that takes a toll on the world.