Theoretical Perspectives on Gender Section 2

     Functionalism perspective states that, behavior that doesn't benefit society will become unimportant. And the reason that male and female have different responsibilities is because it benefits human living.

     Early humans realized that dividing responsibilities between men and women helped them. Men hunted because of their size and muscular strength and they were more expendable. While women stayed inside and did work that used very little physical strength and wasn't putting them into any harm. Women were needed to reproduce, one male could keep the population up but one female could not. 

     Modern Society has made men try to keep women away from the access to political, economic, and social resources. And keep the power in the "dominate" hands. Conflict theory has made it this way by saying it is an advantage to men to keep women from developing their potential, and maintain the status quo. It also preserves the privileges the men enjoy. In Afghanistan women were trapped in a way of life that that was not known to be the same anywhere else in the Modern world, girls were prohibited to go to school, women couldn't work outside, and women were muted. 

     Traditional gender roles are now outdated, it is not right for the industrial and postindustrial era. Men aren't at an advantage over women in the work industry, at least that is what we would like to believe. And now in this day and age women are more independent than they use to be, there is a lot of single mothers. 

     There are many things that have contributed to the way the world lives and how there still is gender roles, by the way we are socialized. Parents are a big factor in this by the way they transfer their values and attitudes. Also by the chores they give their children they give girls "feminine" chores like doing the laundry, or dishes, and then give boys "masculine" chores as in doing yard work, or taking out the garbage. Schools play a part into this to they expect boys to be more assertive in class and have girls sit patiently. Also by what they different genders are expected to wear to school and the sports they play after school. Peers also pressure everyone to conform to the idealized role model.
     The world is also using gender to separate the