Gender Theory seems to be quite simple on an external level. When one thinks of
             gender they think of being entirely, or encompassing the characteristics of, the male or
             female species. Gender Theory calls for more than just thinking about gender in a very
             dichotomous way, it entails the separation of sex and gender; essentially dismissing the
             roles prescribed to a certain sex by which gender category they are associated, thus
             explaining why women have been oppressed by men throughout the ages. Gender
             Theory has become one of the most popular of all the feminist theories because it proves
             to be more inclusive than all the other theories.
             The all inclusive Gender Theory states that the oppression of women comes from
             the gender biased society we live in. "The term "gender" is part of the attempt by
             contemporary feminists to stake claim to a certain definitional ground, to insist on the
             inadequacy of existing bodies of theory for explaining persistent inequalities between
             women and men" (Scott, 41). Most societies throughout the ages have had a "universal
             need to establish classifications...on the basis of physical traits." (Delphy, 4). Namely,
             prescribing roles to those belonging to a certain gender; male or female. Women are
             prescribed to be mothers, wives, homemakers, and the subordinate; men are supposed to
             be strong, the breadwinners, and the dominant. Gender is, "described as the cause of
             certain beliefs about the world; the force that molds a plastic humanity, produces
             naturalized bodies, or imposes sexual dimorphism; the determinant of identity; the
             process that structures labor, power, and cathexis; or the mental category that structures a
             form of dichotomous perception" (Hawkensworth, 680). According to Gender Theory
             we need to separate sex and gender, and renounce the stereotypical attributes that are
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