GENDER DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

Gender Differences and Similarities



Gender Differences and Similarities

This unwritten standard humanity uses to referee persons designated days back thousands of years and is apparently depicted in the quotes of some of the most well known persons in history. Aristotle recounted women as "a deformity, a misbegotten male," St. Thomas Aquinas argued that god should not have conceived women, craniologists of the nineteenth years contended that women's smaller heads justified their subordinate place in humanity, and Freud accepted women had "little sense of justice," the list moves on. The history of male supremacy and life is unfortunate, but it is past, what does the future hold? Only the newspapers will tell. Mass mediated messages offer the most up to date, mighty, technological and influential schemes for forming heritage reality. The attractiveness, diet, and advertising commerce are the most obvious, and the best studied demonstrations of contemporary, self-conscious myth-makers who control cultural notions and acceptable images of gender. These industries set the standard for factual masculinity and femininity, proposing the law on what is male and what is feminine behavior. As we start the twenty first years we enter a world of rules and guidelines, a world where what we state and do is controlled by heritage stereo-types, some age vintage, some up to date, and some that are concluding factors in how we reside our resides.

Through recent research we have learned that gender differences are not something that we are born with, they're not due to differences in brain matter, and they're certainly not due to the two sexes being from different planets. We are who we are and we broadcast how we broadcast because it is what humanity and culture demand of us. Although this noise like a easy difference that can easily be settled you might be shocked; disregarding everything you've ever wise about the distinction between young men and girls is a mighty large-scale task.

Physical specialization of the sexes (Eagly et al., 2004) is considered as the distal cause of gender roles. unique physical advantages of men in terms of body size and upper body strength gave them an advantage over women in social activities that required such physical attributes such as hunting, grazing and war. On the other hand, the woman's biological capacity for reproduction and rearing of children is proposed to explain their limited participation in social activities. Such an agreement dividing the activity with the purpose of achieving efficiency activity led to the division of labor between the sexes. Social theorists have explicitly stressed that the role division of labor is not strictly defined as that between gainful employment and national, rather, is conceptualized to include all activities within a society that are necessary for their existence and sustainability. The characteristics of the activities of men and women became the perceptions and beliefs of the attributes with the disposition of men or women themselves. Through the process of corresponding inference (Gilbert, 1998), the division of work led to gender roles or gender ...