Archive for August, 2010
Gender Roles and Its Development
Gender is an identity of an individual. Gender can be summed up as set of different characteristics which are used to distinguish between a male and a female. It has many definitions and gender is substituted by the word ‘sex’ in modern terms. A role is a set of duties and responsibilities which have not been assigned as such but generally accepted with due course of time. In the same vein, gender roles are the roles taken by an individual according to his gender. Gender roles are considered a stereotype because it is more of a belief which has a practical reasoning to it.
Gender role is a categorization based on the gender of a person. It generally refers to a theoretical construct which is considered socially appropriate and gets reinstated with time. “We are as similar as we are different,” goes a general saying which clearly states the fact that both genders have many similarities as well as dissimilarities between them. Physical structure was the base of this kind of systematic categorization. The range of its influence on cultures can vary region to region but most agree that ‘physical features’ were used as a base for this concept. It was started as a concept in the research and studies of social sciences.
Tags: conservative societies, gender gender, gender stereotypes, gender stereotyping, practical reasoning
Gender Selection – Scientific Principles of a High Success Calendar Tool
The possibility of scientific gender selection rose in 1933 when two Russian scientists, Mme Vera SCHROEDER and M. KOLTZOFF published their article in “Nature”. These scientists have uncovered the fact that depending on whether they carry an X or Y chromosome, spermatozoa have opposite polarization. The X spermatozoa have a negative charge and the Y spermatozoa a positive charge. This work has also been validated by other scientific studies. One of them is the study carried out in The Science University of Tokyo in 1992. As we all know, nature always has some reasons when producing things in their own way. So why did nature give different electrical charges to the X and Y spermatozoa? Could it be because some other electrical process is going on with the ovum in the female body that would somehow relate to the different charges on the different types of spermatozoa?
In fact that is exactly what this is. Recently Dr. Kenneth GLANDER of Duke University, showed that the female Muriquis monkeys in Brazil, are able to modify their vaginal electric potential in order to promote fertilization of the ovule by male or female spermatozoa according to need to preserve the male/female equilibrium of their group. This is a very good example of conscious gender selection and is specific to the issue of family balance of these particular monkeys have.
Tags: diet method, duke university, gender selection, russian scientists, y chromosome