Title: Gender Studies
Headings: Gender Studies
Gender Studies
Defying Gender Roles
Breaking the Binary
Challenges of Defying the Binary
Gender Stereotypes and Oppression
Gender Studies as a Tool
References
About Shubha Arvind

Content: However, gender has also been proven to be a spectrum rather than a binary. Looking back at the initial gender roles, they too have been challenged by the current societies across cultures wherein males and females are not defined by their primary roles. Read: Gender Sociology
Defying Gender Roles
In modern societies, it is common to see women working and obtaining high positions in the workplace. However, not so common, it is also seen that there are men who chose to stay home to cater to the family. This phenomenon can, however, be observed in some tribes as well, which have variation in their gender roles. Anthropologist Margret Mead (1935) found in her research on the primitive tribes in Papua New Guinea, one of the tribes in her research, the Tchambuli tribe had a reversal in the initial gender roles wherein the women would work but also care for the family while men spent their time wallowing about decorating themselves. Here the women were the leaders and continued to lead the tribe. Breaking the Binary
Looking at gender as a spectrum present-day gender studies aim to look at genders that are not limited to the binary. Here, they view gender on a spectrum where an individual’s gender identity is not defined or limited to their biological sex.