Essay Topic

-I want to focus my essay on social conformity through gender roles. I am going to interview my grandmother, a skilled pianist, and try to discover whether or not society pressured her to fill a more "female" role in life, instead of music. I want to find out whether or not her parents and her peers pressured her to give up her dreams in order to meet society's norms. Also, I am wondering if her severe stage fright had to do with society's pressures. My hypothesis is that she indeed was pressured by society to fulfill a more female role in life, instead of her dream of pursuing music as a career.