Introduction:
Sociologists define gender as social distinctions based on
culturally conceived and learned ideas about appropriate behavior and
appearance males and females. “Appropriate varies according to time and place
in 1950s, for example, men were not expected to witness their children’s
births. Today, however, it is taken for granted that the father will be present.
As another example, women in the United States typically remove the hair on
their faces even very small amounts of hair on their legs and under their arms.
In contrast people in many European countries and elsewhere do not expected
women to be hairless in these areas.
If we simply think about the men and women we encounter every
day, we quickly realize that people of the same sex vary in the extent to which
they meet their society’s gender expectations, some people conform to gender
expectations and other do not . This variability, however does not stop most
people from using their society’s gender expectation evaluate their own and
other’s behavior and appearances in virtually every other aspect of human
experience, including modes of dress, social roles, and even of expressing
emotion and experiencing sexual desire;