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  • Essay / Men and Women in Dave Barry's Batter Cleaning and...

    To return to my earlier point about the socialization of women as cleaners, this makes sense. If women are socialized to focus on household details and men to be resource providers, then it would make sense that their interests would be different as well. Because men are often portrayed as those who keep the family afloat financially and are not as interested in the home, it follows that their interests in their free time lie outside the home. Additionally, by examining the biological differences between men and women, we can understand more about why men are interested in sports than women. First, although men are more aggressive than women (Jantz, 2014), which could partly explain their interest in sports, this could also be explained from an evolutionary perspective. Essentially, if men are interested in and participate in sports, they could gain partner status by being in better physical shape (Bering,