Social Construction of Gender

In the text thus far, what surprised me was the different contexts of gender in other societies. I was interested to learn about gender roles in other cultures, and some of the less-defined divisions between genders in some cultures. If people from these cultures were to view our culture as we have studied theirs, they would probably be surprised to learn how we see each sex. I think that most people are aware of some gender differences between more well-known cultures, such as the stereotype that Latino men objectify women or the supposition that Asian women are quiet and submissive. The differences in gender that were mentioned in the text, however, are much different, in that the dominant sex is not always male. Like it was mentioned in the text, this raised questions to me about theories that use biological reasoning for differences in gender. However, it seemed that all societies had women doing at least 50% of the childcare, which does make sense biologically. I think that biological reasoning has some backing, but it can't explain all the differences in gender in our society or other societies.