Summary
First, gender and sex is different thing.
Gender is a kind of role that is assigned by society or culture. Gender depends on behavioral expectations and norms. And people know them , adopt that behaviors.
Sex is genetic and biological factor. But expectations change. Traditional gender characteristics are different from today's.
Sex separate people to female/male. Female have larger gametes than male , so they can bear offspring. Female do reproduction in society. But deciding person's sex is complex problem, so standards are not uniform. Today, intersex and transexuality are hot topics.
Physiological differences between two sexes are important as sociological differences.
For example, organs and chromosomes are different and male are taller, stronger than female. And female live about 4 years longer than male in average.
There are discriminations based on sex or gender. And there are many theories.
Opinion
In Korea, gender is very important topic. In Korea society, men had privileges a lengthy period time. However, women couldn't. Because, in the past(Joseon Dynasty era), state religion was confucianism. This religion divide the role between men and women, exhaustively. But, the seperation is male chauvinism, excessively. So, men had several privileges in society, however women had very suppressed life. The problem is this tendency continues this day. Society still recognize men strong than women, men work better than women and there are very very many prejudice and misunderstanding about women. These tendencies are wrong clearly.
Also, education and media describe women are weaker than men. In addition, media use women's sex appeal for their profit. So, some of boys and adult male are mistaken about women.
Furthermore, these tendencies cause suppression of women.
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Question
How to educate for teenager's right gender values and understanding?
To educate and understand the value of gender to teens Once we are helped to prevent them from being confined to the framework of gender and limiting their goals.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, both men and women should be given the idea that they should be respected.