Title: 5 Gender Roles Throughout History That Are Completely Different From Our Own
Headings: How Gender Roles Throughout History Have Changed
How Gender Roles Throughout History Have Changed
1. Pink And Blue Once Had The Reverse Gender Connotations
2. Computer Programming Was Once Considered Women's Work
3. In Russia, Doctors Are "Feminine"
4. Women In Israel Are Required To Serve In The Army
5. Women Were Considered The More Sexual Gender In Medieval Europe

Content: 5 Gender Roles Throughout History That Are Completely Different From Our Own
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How Gender Roles Throughout History Have Changed
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By Suzannah Weiss
April 11, 2016
When we talk about gender roles, one thing everyone seems to wonder is to what extent they're biological and to what extend they're culturally influenced. One way to answer this question is to look at how gender roles throughout history and in other cultures compare to our own. After all, if something is completely biological, we'd expect it to exist since the birth of humanity and be the same everywhere — but many gender norms are not. More like this
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The valorization of current, Western gender roles as "natural" is one example of how sexism and racism can intersect. In the process of promoting social norms that typically denigrate women, this belief system also discounts other cultures that do things differently. The truth is, some of the norms that seem innate and automatic to us might seem unnatural and absurd to people from other cultures. In reality, nobody's conventions are natural or unnatural. The only thing negative about any culture's gender roles is the fact that they're imposed on people, often based on a hierarchy that relegates women and non-binary people to the bottom. Here are a few gender roles from other places and times that you might be surprised by — because they show that the modern, American way of doing things isn't the only way.