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How do you think gender roles have changed over the years? What are some challenges with the change in gender roles? What is one experience you have reflecting this?

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Gender roles have changed over the years is true. Women have been liberalised and step out of the house to explore avenues and contribute their skills to the society. The stereotype of women has the duty to bear the child and men take care of the family has changed. This has been attributed to the economic scenario of the society and the increased cost of living is inflating against the downward trend of standard of living. This has pushed the need for woman to get out of home and work. However, women at work is not a new scenario. Women have long been known to work in fields as farmers assisting men in less muscular jobs. However, with the changing attitude women are allowed to partake is muscular jobs like participation in the defence especially their recent acceptance into combat. The striking significance is the participation of women in defence in the Muslim countries. The challenges with women taking part in roles of muscular jobs are their lack of ability to carry out heavy physical tasks needing more power in the muscles which can affect their uterus and childbearing ability. These taboos are because of malnourisment and need to cater with focused specific diet and lifestyle habits. However, less research on the application of strategic intellectual capability and different skills, especially in the field of mathematics and higher analytics, are still not for women. Women need to learn to be independent to make a mark of themselves. Similarly, research is another sector where performance of women and recognition of her findings has gender bias in acceptance and in sanction of research grants. In contrary paternal role and the role of men in women jobs like teaching and administrative are attributed for women and not men. Modelling has been another example where women and the feminity are appraised while masculine appraisal has been attributed to morality blame on women. This is the reason for the popularity of Miss Beauty pageants and not Mr shows. Needless to say are the topics of sexual harassment and equality policies driving equal opportunity rather than representation of women and men at job roles. This drives the need to reassess the evaluation pattern and weightage to various tasks.