Gender Roles in Society

Recently, a large political upheaval has been raise by the feminist rights movements and a gathering of more women in the workforce. Initiated in the 1950's, women's rights activists first gained females their rights. Recently, males in the work force are still having trouble adapting, and to many it seems as though women have come out of nowhere and are "taking over", while to women it seems they are oppressed and unfavored when compared to men.

One thing I think that is overlooked is the behavioral patterns that males have inherited. Over the past 2000 years, societies have been dominantly patriarchal; in that time, males have developed certain "behaviors". While many of these behavioral patterns are due to operant conditioning from society, I think that a major part of it is the historical significance of these behaviors. Studies show that men excel in "objects in motion, fluid reasoning, math, geography, science, and aiming; to me personally, I feel these are due to developments that we made over the course of time that have remained in us as a base line behavior that is never totally present but does influence us in reasoning and development.

Additionally, many times females consider job opportunities 'unequal', or 'favoring men'. Female rights only truly showed up about 60 years ago; male dominated societies have been present since ancient times. This new behavior and rights for women, while they are well deserved, are also so recent that not all industries have fully adapted to allow for an equal opportunity.

So the one thing I hope to make clear is this: while much is based on biological and cultural conditions, another major part of this debate is the historical factor. So instead of trying to be so sudden in changing job equality, think about this: in the history of mankind, something so dramatic has never changed so quickly so civilly.