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As we move forward in our lives, we eventually come to assume the responsibility of parenthood and caring for a family of our own. It's often assumed that the habits of our own parents will be based down to us but I think that our generation will be much more open-minded and egalitarian. Our current generation of men and women have a completely different mentality and ideas of gender and sexuality compared to our ancestors. The old-fashioned perceptions of men and women are very much extinct in the 21st century but there are always certain unavoidable differences that will separate men from women, whether biological or social constructed.
Society has played a huge part in defining masculinity and femininity through mass media, literature, and history. This in turn affects how they operate in a family environment. This idea is supported in page 6 of West and Zimmerman's, Doing Gender, as they assert that gender is more like the result of social doings rather than traits or......

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