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Gender role
is the idea that people should behave in certain ways because of their
gender
. As an example, in a
hunter-gatherer
economy, men usually do more hunting and women do more gathering. In a money economy, it was traditionally the role of the man to earn money, and the role of the woman to educate the children. Such behavior may be a result of social and cultural factors. In the case it is the result of
socialization
. There is still a discussion to what extent the observed behaviour is a function of the
personality
, and to what extent social factors play a role in the determination of gender-specific differences in behaviour.
[1]
Gender roles are dependent on the culture and history of the society that they are part of. While most cultures express two genders, some express more.
Androgyny
, for example, has been proposed as a third gender.
[2]
Other societies have been claimed to have more than five genders,
[3]
and some non-Western ones have three genders ?
man
,
woman
and
third gender
.
[4]
Gender expression refers to the external manifestation of one's
gender identity
, through "masculine," "feminine," or gender-variant or gender neutral behavior, clothing, hairstyles, or body characteristics.
[5]
The
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
says that
stereotyped
gender role should be abolished.
[6]
- ↑
"What do we mean by "sex" and "gender"?"
.
World Health Organization
. Retrieved
2009-09-29
.
- ↑
Eleanor Emmons, Maccoby (1966).
"Sex differences in intellectual functioning"
.
The Development of Sex Differences
. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. pp. 25?55.
ISBN
978-0-8047-0308-6
.
- ↑
Graham, Sharyn (2001),
Sulawesi's fifth gender
, Inside Indonesia, April?June 2001.
- ↑
Roscoe, Will (2000).
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
. Palgrave Macmillan (June 17, 2000)
ISBN
0-312-22479-6
See also: Trumbach, Randolph (1994).
London’s Sapphists: From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture.
In Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History, edited by Gilbert Herdt, 111-36. New York: Zone (MIT).
ISBN
978-0-942299-82-3
- ↑
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
‘’GLAAD Media Reference Guide, 8th Edition. Transgender Glossary of Terms”
, ‘’
GLAAD
’’, USA, May 2010. Retrieved on 2011-11-20.
- ↑
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
, Article 5