Gender roles in society

In all cultures there is a cultural construction of gender. Contemplate over your personal experience and discuss the ways that you were personally trained into your gender at home, at school, with your friends, etc. Define gender and specify first the ideas and practices which are associated with the particular gender in your culture. Do you see yourself as passive recipients of the dominant gender roles in your society? As we said already, every culture …showed first 75 words of 1142 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1142 total…own. Their strong influence changed our societies greatly, together with that the position of woman really grew enormously. Woman nowadays share "almost" the same privileges as man. But! The question still remains: Can woman be equal to man and can there be gender equalities? Maybe a better answer to this question can be given by the next generations. As we know nothing stays static not even culture. Harris,Marvin. Cultural Antropology. Harper Collins College Publishers, 1995