As people we assume that the fact of be a
man or a woman make us different. Society predict someone abilities, interest,
capacities and activities that the person can perform by knowing the sex. We
think that we almost can know everything about a person based on the gender.
Also, often if we know the sex, we limit the capacities of a person. 
A few days ago I read a
internet page that says “Women “Take Care,” Men “Take
Charge:””. Many times when you ask a person to describe a woman they visualized
her like fashion, clean, fragile, and emotional person. People identify woman
with activities like take care of the house and people, cleaning, go shopping,
take care of her beauty and make charitable. On the other hand if you ask to
describe a man they surely describe him like strong, outgoing, unfeeling and
lead person. So if you mention
activities that are related with risk, have control, strength and dirt, people
immediately assume that man performs these things.
Most
of the stereotypes we use to differentiate women of man are inculcate by a
chauvinistic society. These societies have the fault that this thought still
present at this time. All this thought became from generation to generations.
It begins with the fact that parents teach their son to play sports and play
with cars, and teach their daughter to play with dolls and practice ballet. At
this time the children learn to differentiate girls thing of
boys things. Sometimes the parent even scolds the boy if he plays with a doll,
and this make him reject “girls things” or vice versa.
At
this time many things change about the women roles in the society. Time ago
women can’t go study, work neither have the chance to participate in politics.
Time pass and the women got tired to be illiterate, uneducated and stay in the
house. Women began to reveal and prove that they can do whatever the men do.
Now at this generation the woman are treated with the same privileges than man.
Also, are more the women that are study than men. So who knows and with time
the roles invert completely (because in some cases already is in this way) the
men stay in home and the women go out for work and make money for the family
sustention.
To conclude, society stereotype people by their sex. When the
truth is that knowing
someone’s sex may tell us a lot about him or her biologically but it tells us
very little about him or her in other ways. Knowing someone is a woman does not
tell us that she is a good chef neither a good professional. Knowing someone is
a man tells us nothing about his sports achievements neither his emotional
problems. All of us are the person we are because of our experiences and
cultural formation. The different things that define us as person,
professional, athlete or students are independent of our gender.
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