When I was young I did not think about my gender role. I did not think about the day to day events in my life that affected my gender. When I look back I can find so many instances of gender in my life. I am taking one of the smallest instances because of the many ways it relates to not only gender building, but maintaining. As a child I remember my sister and I loved to play outside in the cold season. So, my parents bought us matching coats. They were pink with purple trim. My friend, Neo, who lived next street to me, had a coat too. His was black and red with a logo of a baseball on the back. As a child I never thought of the implications of my coat. It was functional and I thought the color pink was pretty at the time. My room was pink, my bike was pink, and Barbie's house was pink. Why should it be any other way? With out the

Man's experiences are seen as the norm and females experience as not the norm. This does not necessarily mean that he is superior to her, but simply that "man is treated as human and woman as "other". There are three different aspects of a woman's relationship to a man. First, that men see women's difference from man and inferiority to man. Second, that man see women's domestic and reproductive function, as he will be the head of the household. Third, that man sees women as a way to satisfy their sexual needs.

In the tradition of our culture, Neo was building the clay castle to protect us. He was making a shelter and was commended for his idea and hard work. If we look into the deeper meaning of what was happening, he was viewed as making something useful. My sister and I were viewed as making something pretty, and rather useless. Therefore, supporting the idea that male experiences are normal and female experiences are not normal or as important as male experiences. Neo took a role to protect us, almost like that men see women as domesticated and he had his need to protect them and head up that household. Also, Neo thought making the clay castle would be difficult, giving us girls the easier job. At the time, Neo was proud of his massive creation, and my sister and I were proud of our finished goods. I believes that the "male-female difference is superimposed on so many aspects of the social world that a cultural connection is forged between sex and virtually every other aspect of the human experience.

The media or television programs are also to blame for the image that is given to woman. Women play passive roles, in movies and even TV sitcoms. For example in the sitcom Friends, in which the men Ross and Chandler have very successful jobs as an accountant and a anthropologist, while the women on the show are employed as a cook and the other women is a buyer for the department store Bloomingdales. So even on today TV sitcoms woman are casted in to careers that have gender stereotyped such as woman belong at home, in the kitchen or shopping. American society can be very temperamental on their belief system and unwilling to change their mind. This is because of American society's unwillingness to change their views on this type of discrimination. For women to become equal in this society they need to earn equal pay for equal work and have all men accept them in the work force. When this happens we will have reached true equality between men and women.

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