Gender Roles: Biology or Culture

Brett and Sargent are raising questions about what is the role of biology in human behavior in a book called "gender in a cross-cultural perspective" (Brettell and Sargent, 2009, 1). Ward and Edelstein used heterogeneous analysis to solve this problem. They compare biology and behavior of chimpanzees with humans. There are four reasons why a word is compared with a chimpanzee. First, chimpanzees are our nearest genetic close relatives, after that social activities and actions that may reflect human ancestry are continuing.

The sex of a person is determined by the biology of the person, but biology and culture (nature and cultivation) determine the sex of that person. Role depends on gender. Gender is more culturally decisive than biological. In fact, one may have male reproductive organs at birth, but may be a woman and vice versa. For example, there is a difference between men and women, men are more brave than women, women are more emotional than men. Women like to be protected, but men like to protect. In addition, men want pursuit of relationships with women, while women want to pursue. The difference between men and women comes from the difference between sex culture and religion. Some similarities are included: Neither is embarrassing, self-centered, and hopes to fix others to meet their own standards. Likewise, both men and women have their needs for identity and love.

From the perspective of sex in the workplace, men and women have different views on the role of biological and social expectations. Most people think that men and women do not decide what they are good at in the workplace. Of those who saw the difference, 65% say they are based on different expectations of men and women in society, 65% refer to biology. By contrast, about 61% of men with sex differences in the workplace say that most are biological.