Gender roles play a huge part in the society that we live in. Every day, most often without even thinking about it we play into these gender roles. For example, most workplaces are designed with very gender specific positions. I work at Freebirds, a local restaurant chain here in College Station, and there are several different positions that you can work within the restaurant. Though it might not be explicitly stated that each position belongs to a certain gender, it is definitely implied and practiced. Girls are expected to be the "runners"; to restock the line and clean everything. Only the boys are the ones trained to work the grill; to cook and cut the meat. When I first started working at Freebirds, I was trained only how to do the position of runner. After working there for a while I asked to be trained on the grill and was denied. For almost a month straight after that, I continually asked, almost begged, to be trained on the grill position and finally I was able to convince someone to train me on this position. However, even after being trained being trained on the grill, rarely when I worked did I get the opportunity to work grill. It was only after a couple of months of intensely trying to prove that I was capable of working grill, was I then trusted to handle this position. More and more women have been trained on the "men's" positions since then, but although the gender-specificity of each position at this job is slowly being eroded, it is still a constant struggle to equalize the workplace. In my opinion, in most workplaces, if a woman wishes to be taken seriously and treated equally, people do not automatically assume that she is as equally capable as a man. She must constantly struggle to prove that she deserves equality. We must work to implant the idea that men and women should not be defined by the gender roles set in our society.