Title: Culture - Gender Roles
Headings: Gender Roles
Appearance and Culture
Language and Culture

Content: Culture - Gender Roles
Gender Roles



Gender roles vary from culture to culture, and culture has many different contexts. Culture can be defined by language, tradition, or even appearance, and gender roles are an integral part of each aspect. From a sociological perspective, culture helps to shape social norms and beliefs by establishing set rules that are considered appropriate or inappropriate for human behavior. History and tradition tend to play a large role in creating these rules and sometimes make it difficult for these rules to change. However, recently women across the world have been taking strides to re-evaluate and re-work how society portrays them in order to be treated equally and with dignity. Appearance and Culture
The appearance of a woman defines her role in society. In various cultures, clothing or modifications to the body symbolize status while also developing identities for females. In West Africa, the Kalabari tribe establishes a hierarchy and a system of gender roles based on attire. Typically, the more adorned the individual, whether male or female, the higher the status. For women in the Kalabari tribe, there has been an increase in independence and status due to better economic opportunities.