Gender Difference: Myth or Reality

Author(s): Dr. Richa Chaurasia

Abstract:

Concepts are developed by social scientist as terms to study the nature of society and social behaviour, through which social scientist develop various analytical theories and categories that act as an assistance in the investigation of behaviour in the society. Gender is also a kind of concept developed to provide a framework in the systematic study of understanding men and women and their nature. Concept of gender is related with concepts of sex, masculinity, feminism, patriarchy etc. This concept is also associated with various issues like superiority of men over women, reliability of gender as a predictor of performance and ability and other individual outcomes. There are many researches of the view that both men and women differ biologically to a great extent for sure, but assuming such difference between the groups simply on the basis of their sex is not justified. It leads to an age-old stereotype and need to be rectified. In the present paper an attempt has made to compare the ability, performance and achievement of both the genders (male and female) in various steps of life and also critically review the myths about gender and sex related predictions and about their behaviours. Data and statistics from various sources regarding behavioural patterns, performance and achievement were collected, compared and concluded. Whereas, the results obtained do not approve the point that women are poor than the men generally. This paper mainly highlights the points that are satisfactorily useful to prove that gender discrimination or negative biases need to be changed.

keywords:

Pages: 159-162     |    2 View     |    0 Download