The phrase "traditional norm" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a customary way of behaving or to a time-honored social principle. For example: "The traditional norm in this community is to have dinner together as a family on Sundays."
It could also have something to do with the way that society treats women who go against the traditional norm.
This is a shocking and indefensible breach of the traditional norm, under which the school accepted the risk that a promising high-school athlete might not pan out.
This kind of activity normally takes place under deep cover in Whitehall, the complex of palatial Victorian and Georgian government buildings in downtown London where secrecy is the traditional norm and modern freedom of information practices have never taken hold.
Xiaoli's expression not only reflected her attitudes to the traditional norm of filial piety but also reflected the social mechanisms of the practice of familial obligation.
How do you instill family pride when for years society told us to be ashamed of ourselves or our families if they didn't fit some "traditional norm"?
This bucks the traditional norm in which the man is the primary breadwinner and the woman is the stay-at-home mom, a philosophy to which research shows both men and women continue to subscribe.
From her childhood days, Ms. Devi challenged traditional norms.
"We must reach out and recognize and strengthen the traditional norms that provided for the protection of children and women -- the taboos, the injunctions.
She and her sister Shams were among the first Iranian women to go in public with their hair uncovered, breaking traditional norms in the Shi'ite country.
Jeff Rothstein, a partner at Cult360, said "We found that millennials do not want to see themselves as buying into traditional norms.
He resorts to these complicated and controversial explanations as the economy is not yet displaying the traditional symptoms of overheating.So far, an unemployment rate of 4.1%, way below the traditional norms, has not led to unsustainable wage pressure.
