The Role of The Female in Western Culture

In Susie Orbach's article "Obesity as a Feminist Problem", she thinks that obesity is a rebellious against the views of women in Europe and the United States. She started her own paper from explaining the obviousness of obesity and diet problems, and how they exert adverse effects on women. Auerbach thinks "almost indispensably, the explanation about obesity points to the woman's own failure" (paragraph 2). On the other hand, she believes that feminism and women suffer from obsessive diet and lead to obesity. It is not due to my own mistakes, but for "a painful personal experience due to social background". Woman

Furthermore, in recent Western cultural concepts, the roles of women's men and women are classified as "home - mothers" or "professional women". In fact, women are often faced with a double burden. The necessity of balancing occupation and child rearing deprives women of leisure. Most men undergoing college education have careers and families, but only 50% of educated women have children. As long as you consider that physiological behavior is consistent with that person's gender identity, that person's sex role is considered natural in a stable society where people do not think much. Only for some reason draw attention only if an individual has a gender role that is inconsistent with its gender

Gender can be defined as a social identity that includes the role people play for the person's gender. Since the roles of men and women are different, gender can not be defined by narrow male and female roles. Gender is culturally different, there is a big difference for each culture. Anthropologists have studied these differences to determine the range of actions developed to determine gender and the ability to play a role in creating these roles. The role of women in the American society depends on the religious attitude and the living conditions prevailing in the American history. Over the centuries, European and American cultures have been based on patriarchalism where exclusive ownership of women from certain men is considered important. As a result, women were regulated by property. I do not have the right to talk on his own fate.

Western society usually expects a clear social structure whose value is based on the family, social and political roles of men and women, but the difference between West Africa and Western culture is different between men and women In parallel power structure in the public and private sector. Work can be divided by sex, but the value of work in society is not determined by gender. Like 9 An Anuu, Yemonia / Oloquin has conflicting attributes and she has the ability to heal and destroy. Yemonja and Olokun are parts of women and men in the Yoruba Sea. Male orocun is related to more destructive elements of the ocean, but Yemonja's female part is breeder and birth number (Dorsey 23)