Legitimate/Illegitimate Roles in Society



Legitimate/Illegitimate Roles in Society

Introduction

The paper will analyze how the gender is serviceable. Gender discrimination is the restriction or denial of rights and freedoms on the basis of sex. Gender discrimination is the most common type of discrimination. It manifests itself in different spheres of human life and takes many forms. However, some of the countries have taken steps in the so called positive discrimination, which is, targeted for primary support and promotion of women.

Discussion

Since the second half of the nineteenth century, women were largely presented in the labor market and in the agricultural sector than in the nascent industrial production, especially in the textile sector. The protective intervention against women as well as children, therefore moving from a presumption of a reduced capability to physiological performance (work capacity) and is aimed at preventing or restricting the employment of women through a variety of prohibitions relating to the execution of the service, with the aim of protecting human health and the capacity to work, by the use of physical energies (Roscigno, 2007). The position of women has varied in recent years, when the substantial failure of anti-discrimination policies has led the legislature to adopt measures that would promote a positive and effective access of women to jobs.

Traditional View of Womanhood

The attributes most commonly associated with femininity are perceived as personality traits such as caring, quality of giving life, creativity, and openness to other people. The stereotype of the modern welfare of women is perceived as the complementary opposite of man. A feminine woman can have different physical characteristics from those of a manly man. These attributes result from the relationship between the biology of the individual and socialization which receives these on the basis of its biology. However, the theories of femininity explored in the field of gender studies propose that femininity and masculinity are essentially built or recited through a process of social construction.

Traditional View of Manhood

Perception of masculinity as a virtue in itself is a value judgment, which is associated with the masculine qualities like strength or courage. In societies that value as the patriarchal societies, this association is the principle of male personality development. This challenge is a source of tension between the individual integrated with the traditional model and those who take a progressive attitude (Hiau, 2008).

Representation of masculinity considered as moral virtue (discerned with the notion of Andreas) combines with an exaltation of physical force which is especially valued in military companies. In this context, manhood is associated with power and strength, which tends to identify men at their physical and mental abilities that would result in courage, energy, etc., While femininity is conceived as a set of physical characteristics and physiological opposite traits that would follow each type which is supposed to hold one of the two essential dimensions of the human being.

Manhood is associated with the strength and fortitude, resolution and perseverance, self-respect and sense of honor, etc. It is generally attributed to men, sometimes in a positive way ...