Gender Oppression: The Definition Of Family

Family being delicate to define is connected to the rapid structure changes that happen in society. As society evolves, so does the concept of the family. As family evolves new perspectives and ideas are learned which changes the definition of family. As the definition changes it is important to incorporate everyone’s identity since failing to do so can create barriers for many. Race and ethnicity needs to be included in the definition of family in order to understand the diversity that occurs in the social world. These changes make people adapt to society. By including race and ethnicity it reduces the chances of excluding anyone from the definition of family. When family is defined using the sociological perspective it allows for different …show more content…
Gender oppression occurs a lot within many different races and ethnicities. Everyone at least has experienced some type of oppression, which has shifted and marked a persons live in a different way. Gender oppression can be classified as a women and men both facing responsibilities but still not fair. The men in engaged in productive labor, while the women is engaged in reproductive labor. Productive labor is work that you are getting paid for. You are working for money. In the other hand reproductive labor is the duties and responsibilities that a women is “supposed” to do at home and children according to the norms of society. It is the work in which you are not getting paid for. Only a certain amount of women can escape this reproductive labor by obtaining a professional job in which they can afford to pay other women to do their “women” obligations. Gender oppression occurs with the implication of gender roles, in which the man in the breadwinner and the women the homemaker. Gender roles oppress the women by limitation their ability to grow in different aspects in life besides being a wife and mother. With respect to all cultures, gender oppression and gender roles are viewed differently. For instance in the article We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives, Yen Le Espiritu (2001), expresses the limitations and “protection” these girls receive because they want them to maintain their purity and cleanness, that the American white girls do not have. “Because the policing of women’s bodies is one of the main means of asserting moral superiority, young women face numerous restrictions on their autonomy, mobility, and personal decision making”(Espiritu 2001;435). These girls are oppressed to live a life that their culture portrays, although they may want something different for themselves. Also the idea that society views these people as inferior