Bacha Posh Essay

Bacha Posh: She is My Son The movie series "Bacha Posh: She Is My Son: Afghanistan's Bacha Posh, When Girls Become Boys" is a movie documentary which emphasize on the gender roles practiced by the citizens of Afghanistan. The movie depicts how the social construction of gender roles affects mostly the female children in their society. It focuses on the need for every family to have a male child, with the reason that only the Male children have the right to go to school, obtain a job and make money for the family, while the Female children are expected to stay at home and take care of the family and they are often discouraged from getting a job. The most interesting part of this movie series is the fact that in an event that a family gives birth to only female children the family would most likely disguises their female children into dressing and acting like a male child a term which is referred to as

The social construction of gender roles has made it mandatory for an individual to behave in a certain way that is acceptable by the member of the society. In our society " Boys must be masculine, active, aggressive, tough, daring and dominant but girls must be feminine soft, emotional, sweet, and submissive" (Scheaffer 251). The Traditional gender role on the expected way a female child should behave have being one of the most important causes of underrepresentation of Female in the workforce and business, this is because the society teaches a female child to be submissive at an early stage of their lives which in turn affects them negatively and influences the female child not to have the zeal to aspire to belong in leadership positions in the society. Meanwhile, the society also teaches the male child at a very young age to possess a dominating