Gender Development

Introduction

Throughout the history of humanity have been passing values through culture, religion, customs, etc.., Related to the role and role to be assumed by different sexes in society. Usually women are destined to procreation, care of children and home while the man was expected to be capable of fulfilling the needs of your family and your livelihood. The woman was therefore relegated to the domestic sphere, and the man was maintaining a link with the outside of the family system. With the emergence of social classes also appears discrimination of women and their conversion, by man, an object of pleasure and procreation. Throughout the development of society, individuals were learning through the process socialization, behavior that everyone should take as male or female. This differentiation, which includes rules of behavior, attitudes, values, tasks, etc., and where it should be conditional female to male, transcends all spheres of life and causes a power relationship where the man is dominant while those women, their role and tasks are socially devalued (Acker, pp. 139-158).

Background

There are 3 basic elements in gender, which are:

Gender assignment: It is from the time of birth by genitalia.

Gender identity: They are the biological and psychological aspects that are established from the first years of life.

Gender role: set of socially established norms for each sex.

The family is the primary space for the socialization of its members, being in the first instance where it carries out the transmission systems of norms and values that govern individuals and society as a whole. Thus, early on, the family is stimulating the differentiation system of values and norms between the sexes, thereby laying both identity and gender role. Social rules are clearly demarcating the expectations regarding the roles that people should take. Similarly, the idea that people have about the role of father, mother, wife or husband, is largely conditioned by the society of which we result (Fernandez L. Gender Roles. The family context reinforces gender differentiation, giving different activities to boys and girls, girls are those related devoted to home, serve, serve others, while children retain competitive activities that allow them to have greater control over the external environment, which is a very important way to go defining behavioural norms and social expectations, making clear to each sex. Family, therefore, is the main link sexual classification process is forming since par excellence and difficult to replace.

Problem Statement

Masculine and feminine genders are ...