Gender And Politics Explained

Gender And Politics

• This is a form of hierarchical social division seen everywhere, but is rarely recognized in the study of politics.
• The gender divisions tends to be understood as natural and unchangeable.
• Not based on biology but on social expectations and stereotypes

Examples of division by Gender

• At home and outside ,it is said that the main responsibility of women is housework and bringing up children.
• While boys should do the outside work.
• Even you must have heard people saying , boys don’t cry or don’t cry like a girl.
• These are few instances where discrimination is done without any suitable reasons of such beliefs.
• When these jobs are paid for, men are ready to take up these works.
• Most tailors or cooks in hotels are men as they get paid for it .
• Similarly, it is not that women do not work outside their home.
• In villages, women fetch water, collect fuel and work in the fields.
• In urban areas, poor women work as domestic helper in middle class homes, while
• middle class women work in offices.
• In fact the majority of women do some sort of paid work in addition to domestic labour.
• But their work is not valued and does not get recognition