Sociology of Gender

The term gender role is used to signify all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself/herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively.

In sociology Gender is attached with multiple sociological concepts. Some of them are given below:-

• Gender and Socialization
• Gender and the Division of Labour 
• Gender and Violence
• Gender and Globalisation 

Gender and Socialization:-

By the time children reach the age of 2, many they acquire a firm sense of themselves as male or female, a gender identity that remains throughout life. In addition, at pre-school stage, children develop a firm awareness of gender stereotypes, insisting that certain activities or items of clothing are not for girls and others not for boys. Yet Gender Identity does not automatically follow from biological sex.

Gender and the Division of Labour:-

Before industrialization, economic activity, which centred around agricultural work, crafts and so on, was organized by households. Household members, whether male or female, young or old, contributed to the family's livelihood. Although women might do some types of work and men others, depending on region and class, the distinction between men as breadwinners and women as housewives didn't characterized pre-industrial divisions of labour.

Industrialization shifted much productive activity to factories, shops and offices. This separation of work from home signalled a profound change in gender relations and gender discourse. The home came to be understood not as the site of a family enterprise, but as a refuge from the world of work. Women were defined as the keepers of the home, as it was seen as their nature to create harmony and virtue rather than services and goods.

Gender and Violence:-

social arenas in which violence commonly takes place

(1) in the family—including domestic violence,infanticide, and traditional practices such as female genital mutilation, foot binding, and bride burning; 

(2) in the community—including rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and commercialized violence such as sexual slavery, labor exploitation, female migrant workers; and 

(3) by the State—including violence against women in detention, and in situations of armed conflict such as systematic war rape.

In order to address and end gendered violence, solutions must address both the root causes and interpersonal manifestations of gender roles and power relations in order to ensure a balance of power at all levels of society.

Gender and Globalisation:-

Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Globalization impacts female equality on a large and international scale, both negatively and positively. With continuous changes in international relations, the perception of feminism in Western and Non western societies is frequently revised.