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  • Essay / Gender and gender inequalities - 1924

    In the 1980s, Marxism, the economic forces defining the political and cultural realities of society, mixed with feminism asserted “that gender is not a class but a force driving force of history. This gave rise to the idea that “when women are subordinate, men benefit” and that women are disadvantaged compared to men in the labor market (Conley 2013). Marxist feminists would call this gender conflict. The nuclear family has gender roles which are “a set of behavioral norms assumed to accompany the status of male or female. Gender roles are a more general term, but Parson's sex roles are more of an ambiguous term. Sex role theory states that men are work-oriented, while women are home-oriented to form the ideal nuclear family. “The gender roles created by society were formed for functionalism structuralism, which is the theoretical tradition asserting that every society has certain structures that exist in order to fulfill a certain set of necessary functions (2013). Although functionalists supported this theory in the 1960s, it was flawed. Sex role theory provided only one way for a family to function. Essentialists would describe Parson's theory as the social phenomenon of the nuclear family based on the biological factor of sex. RW Connell described the condition in which men are dominant and privileged and are invisible, which is hegemonic masculinity. Even if some theorists impose hegemonic masculinity, it clarifies