Growing Up as Boys and Girls
As soon as a child takes birth he is discriminated against in one or other ways which further goes on to describe the kind of work they can do, the work they can choose. A boy or a girl is an important identification mark used to identify an individual. Based on whether it’s a boy or girl society goes on teaching us the acceptable behavior of each boy and girl, the kind of work they can do or cannot do. The society we live in cannot see that both boys and girls are the same. Different kinds of roles are assigned to them in order to prepare them for the upcoming future. It is true that most societies will look at work done by men and women in a different way. The work done by a man is given more importance than that done by a woman. There are so many inequalities between men and women that emerge in the area of work.
Growing Up In Samoa in the 1920s
Gender is a term that is used to differentiate between two types of individuals present in a community. It will not only stop there but it goes on discriminating against two individuals based on their gender. It is also used to determine our actions like what we do, who we are, what we will become, where we can go, the life choices we have, etc. These thoughts are fed to over mind from birth. Gender is a term that is used to define biological distinctions between males and females. Now it is used to understand the money of the inequalities and power relations between men and women in society. Here we come across how girls and boys are brought up or socially differentiated. The term socialization is not uniform and is socially determined which is continuously changing over time.