I expressed interest in my last entry regarding gender roles (and although I know we were to respond to an entry, I thought I could respond to my own question).
Gender, in every society, carries so much more than simply being male or female. In our society, for example, woman, historically, have been established as the homemaker; men, the breadwinner. In other cultures, men are regarded as so superior to women, infanticide (of female children) is not an unusual occurrence.
I found a website discussing the gender roles of Japanese society. Although it is a lengthy article, and contains some technical, boring talk, it points out the idea of masculinity and femininity in Japanese society - and just like Western culture, Japan is experiencing a gender role evolution.
Posted by arielle at September 27, 2004 12:36 AM