GENDER ROLES AND MARRIAGE

The Representation of Gender Roles and Marriage

The Representation of Gender Roles and Marriage

One that marks a terminological and philosophical debate around the term "gender" is Robert Stoller, who in the late sixties able to publish the book Sex and Gender "where we make a clear separation of the biological sex of the social gender which caused much controversy, marking an opposition or tension in this regard. Thus sex and gender is inherited acquired through cultural learning. (Morin, 2006)

Most people do not just think that men and women are very different, but also harbor the same ideas about the ways in which the differences manifest. These beliefs are based on an oversimplification or poor critical thinking called as stereotypes, it is designed masculinity and femininity as two antagonistic elements that are mutually exclusive, is now accepted that many individuals coexisting features of both kinds. The sex / gender system is defined as Set of rules by which the biological material of human sex and procreation is shaped by human intervention, social and satisfied in a conventional way. Sexual behavior has been largely the effects of stereotypes about gender roles, as the rule of sexual discrimination of women and the idea that the man is always an expert on sexuality. The legitimization of sexual practice among women is different from men: women's sexuality must be legitimized through love. In the male sexuality is not necessarily through the application of love. Many men and women begin to realize they cannot achieve the pleasure you both want to understand that sex is an experience shared on an equal footing. (Amato, 2007)

Gender roles play an important role in, perspectives on marital satisfaction family decision-making, and couple interaction as in the story “The Proposal” which is a comic farce written by Anton Chekhov. The author has said that in Russia most of the people were getting married for the reason of economic stability, possessions and wealth gain. In this play the main reason behind getting married is given which is not in terms of true love but the materialistic gain. And when people with different role background and gender interacts and collide, it causes a lot of miscommunication and misunderstanding in a marriage. (Rheingold, 2000) Society influences gender roles. Over the past years there is shift in cultural norms in United States which is a dramatic change for both Men and Women.

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It is identified from the research that in America people are moving away from patriarchal marriages. Survey was conducted on the decision making authority and it was found that there are 46% women who takes the decision while 26 of them said men takes the decision and the rest 31 said that decision are made with mutual understanding. (McDowell, 2009)

The examination of family system and traditional gender role is very significant in different population in order to understand the impact on couple dynamics. There are researches being conducted and one of the research sates that Hispanic roles are ...