The Social Construction of Gender

After reading the first section I have to disagree about the role in biology in explaining the differences between males and females and gender inequality. I believe that gender socialization plays a bigger part in determining how one gender is supposed to act separate from the other. From birth most cultures cultivate the gender role within the child. Males are taught to provide for the family and women are meant to care for the family by means of taking care of household duties and raising the child. We've even seen in many cultures far from the Western influence mixed roles, especially in New Guinea where the Arapesh society showed that "both sexes were passive, gentle, unaggressive and emotionally responsive to the needs of others" and in the Mundugumor both sexes were attributed to having aggresive behavior, not just the male.