Seeking Gender Equality: Can it Exist?
to one individual within a society is not always acceptable to another and to view either as such without consideration is to approach the subject with a predetermined prejudice. This in part is why the struggle for cultural and social identity based on an individual’s sex is no stranger to historical reference and why those specific roles always clearly defined. In the early twentieth century and even to this very day anthropologists and sociologists both strive to try to create a system that would better explain these ascribed roles. One attempt, in 1976 by anthropologists came up with the domestic-public model in order to better observe the intricate details of gender related roles. The research that was gathered ultimately revealed that women were often excluded from participating in various “public” activities and opened up even more questions regarding bother the spatial metaphor; the geographical separation of men’s and women’s activities, and the functional metaphor which alter
