Samuel Nussbaum Gender Roles

Society has placed an image into the minds of people of how the role of each gender should be played out. There are two recognized types of gender, a male and a female. The differences between women and men are not solely biological; however, there are many types of gender roles a man or a woman may assume or be placed into by society. Our society’s culture has established a set of unwritten cultural laws of how each gender should act, or, in other words, society has ascribed a stereotype. Men’s gender identity has been one of masculinity, and masculinity is defined as referring to a man or things described as manly. The man is usually the one “in charge” while the women is infantilized by him meaning, she is treated as a baby instead of an …show more content…
Policy makers opposing the capabilities approach would argue that reviewing the capability approach as a canopy of normative theories opens up space for more protective accounts of policy making that defend a mix of freedoms and the achievements, which Nussbaum’s version clearly rejects. She doesn’t sufficiently offer adequate reason behind her theories and her theory of social justice is proposed weakly. But what Nussbaum does add in from Capabilities and Social Justice is, “My aim in this brief presentation will be first to indicate why I believe other approaches to these inequalities are not fully adequate and the capabilities approach is needed. Then I shall mention some very general features of the capabilities approach to show how it can handle the problems other approaches fail to handle.” In which she does by claiming in Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach, “…the whole list of capabilities makes us seek policies that are not just formally fair, treating people similarly…refusing to approve arrangements that confer government approval on those sources of inequality.” The capabilities approach will give women the stable support in life they’ve been missing all along. It will act as a backbone for women since they’re hardly treated with high regard and of the utmost respect like men. Women have …show more content…
All over the world there are women who are struggling to live a life that is worthy of human dignity. The capabilities approach gives them that dignity by offering a theory that will help prevent unequal situations as such. The advancement of women is a vital issue and the capabilities approach improves it. Women are humans and as such they do deserve equal rights parallel to men. Countries with high gender inequalities also experience more unequal dispersion of human development which affects the growth of our economy. Society must give women the equal treatment of men to be considered a truly egalitarian society. There is plentiful work to be