Patriarchal Culture: Gender Roles And Men's Role In Society

Introduction

In patriarchal culture that were implemented by men and affect every aspect in society life to social, culture and economy. Women are marginalized. They are also positioned as men’s subordinate, particularly in role at society. Gender bias is the term to describe a condition of men and women are treated differently, and women often received a discrimination on how society treated them, the role that they acquired. For instance, society is expecting women to work at domestic area (home maker), such as taking care of their husband and children. Meanwhile, men is expected to work a public area to get a job and feed their children (bread winner). When women attempt to acquire a job or actualized themselves by getting higher education,

It also can be defined as a condition of society that positioned women as men’s subordinate in every aspect such as social, culture, and economy. It gives a specific culture to gender, female and male. A gender role has been given since a child, when the parents teach a feminine role to their daughter and masculine role to their son. They are taught, how to dress, behave and also what is they roles and purposes in society. Gender classification is not a problem as long as it does not caused inequality. However, culture values that related to women sexuality are reflecting gender inequality, which unfairly positioned a woman will be found in patriarchal society. A society will be commenting and show a behavior that degrading a woman. For instance, a domestic abuse happened to a women, which conducted by her husband. The society will ignore it, or might think that the abuse happened because she did something wrong.

Some people mistakenly thought that sex and gender are similar thing. Sex is reference for biological characteristic to distinct between men and women. It stressed on the differences based on chromosomes, anatomy, hormone, reproduction system and other physiological component. Meanwhile, gender is reference to distinct men and women, based on social, culture and psychological characteristic from a specific social context (Lindsey, 2005). Distinction based on sex cannot be change, while gender can be shaped and changed within time by