Most of us have watched enough wildlife programmes to know that nature doesn’t provide any simple model for ‘proper’ female and male roles. (If you’re not convinced, look up the various rearing arrangements of, say, elephants, seas and Emperor penguins.)

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A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive …

Gender roles are based on the different expectations that individuals, groups, and societies have of individuals based on their sex and based on each society’s values and beliefs about gender. Gender roles are the product of the interactions between individuals and their environments, and they give individuals cues about what sort of behavior is believed to be appropriate for what sex.

Gender discrimination in society is when there is a bias based on a person’s sex, that leads to defining the roles he/she should play in society.

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These different sex roles, described above, have withstood the test of time. Their longevity has been demonstrated over many thousands of years.

Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property. Patriarchy is associated with a set of ideas, a patriarchal ideology that acts to explain and justify this dominance and attributes it to inherent natural differences between …

Wild sex: when sex roles get reversed, some females develop a ‘penis’

Yes, gender roles are necessary for society to function healthily. A man need to realize what his role is in making his spouse “bloom”, same with the woman.