Sunday, 11 November 2012

Gender Roles

Gender Roles are a group of rules behavior designed for a specific gender like male or female.  Actually, gender roles exist most in the Middle East countries but I don't think it doesn't happen in Peru.  Since I was a child, I have been able to see both men and women sharing responsibilities in all aspects of their life and children grown up with that concept so, when they become in adults they don't think men are not able to do things that just woman can do it or conversely, but there are exceptions.  Proof of this, some countries have a woman as a president, a position where for long time was just for men.  Then men who are nurses, Flight Attendants  or children's entertainers. But sometimes the motive is not just they want it to do, it could be by neediness.  For example, a few weeks ago, I saw in a Peruvian News, women working building houses.  The reason was because they need to make money to bring at home.
I picked out this question, I think it is a good one:  Someone is talking about their doctor. Do you think their doctor is male or female?  Well, if  I'm talking in English I don't know who could be so, in my case I wonder if is male or female, I don't automatically think the exact gender because in Spanish grammar is different, specially to identify the gender. In Spanish grammar, we use the letter A for female to make the differences between male and female.

Examples: 
Doctor (for male)    Doctora (for female) 
Enfermero (male nurse)     Enfermera (female nurse)
Profesor (male teacher)  Profesora ( female teacher)

See the differences so, we don't have problems to identify genders.  Interesting eh?  Otherwise, Airin and Jose won't let me lie.
To conclude with this post I think, both men and women have the same intelligence and physical abilities, some more than others, and that has already been proven.  Here some video to proof my samples.


 
Flight Attendant Male




 
 Women building houses

This all for now, soon more post!!
And enjoy your looooooong weekend.


6 comments:

  1. Your post is so nice and clear!!!

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  2. I knew Spanish grammar. It is easy to understand because of some examples.

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  3. Thank you for a great post. I am even more interested in learning Spanish now :)

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  4. What a nice video! After I read your post, I've become to learn Spanish!

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  5. good!! i wanna show u something hahahahaha

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhcVGJqk7cI

    enjoy fun~~!!

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  6. Thanks for the all comments and sorry for not answering before. Yes, Spanish is an awesome language and I'm so proud to speaking. Let's speak Spanish!!! and JoonSeong, funny video you send me. It made me laugh.

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