Our gender personalities are sets of personal responses which are originally created in each of us by our up bringing. Society has the most influence in determining what it is to be masculine and feminine. I would define a woman as an individual who is the provider, nurturer and has the ability and knowledge to complete any tasks as any other. Everyday life has exposed the differences between the breadwinner and the homemaker. The known household powers once included social governance, family upbringing and breadwinning. Through the late 1800's women were only praised for family up bringing, which artificially categorizes them as being what we at labeled today, homemaker.
             Gender biological divides every human being into physically a male or a female. Characteristics describe what is to be feminine and masculine. Personalities which are developed by experiences and knowledge learned by our up bringing separates the acts into two. Being feminine is to cook, clean, express emotional feelings and to be lady like (proper). Being Masculine is labeled to be strong minded, hard worker and dominate. Since women are known to express their feelings it's labeled to be a feminine characteristic, and if a man expressed his feelings it's looked upon as a weak aspect. According to the sex-role theory in sociology, men are known to be aggressive, rational, dominate and therefore are fit enough to be the breadwinner. And women are passive,
             intuitive, submissive and subjective, which makes them capable of being the homemaker.
             Being a woman I have encountered many different gender stereotypes. In the Indian culture I have taught to be a homemaker and to have an arrange marriage with a
             man with a higher status than myself. Out of security and assurance the man is known to be the breadwinner, while the women are housewives. Unfortunately, through my parents, I have personally experienced what happens when the woman depends on her ...