2007-12-10 08:49:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Biologically speaking, having genders that are different from each other is often an advantage for survival. Bearing and rearing young is done at a price and it can serve the species if women are better able to pay it, either by being larger and more robust or through assistance from men. This is why most animal species have at least SOME gender inequality built in to their DNA.
This can easily carry over to societal structures as well. When gender roles are well-defined in a society, it becomes easier for people to know what they are supposed to do to serve the society's goals. Having specialized roles can make the practitioners of those specialties more proficient. It can also provide a sense of stability and tradition at the cost of freedom and in some senses destroying those individuals who cannot fit into society's mold. Though I wouldn't say that it's worth that price, there are some who would.
2007-12-10 12:16:20 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what a loaded question! try "Does inequality benefit men and women"?
I'm not saying it does or doesn't, but not enough studies have been done on this as far as humans are concerned.
this questions sounds like a mind-control question that i would get from political proffersors in high school like "what are ten the ways in which Europe or the Middle East are better than America" on the left, or things like "Write an essay defending Bush's war in iraq" on the right!
i always got bad grades for arguing with the question.
some species of birds have very un-equal relations between the sexes (and tend to be polygamous where one man gets ALL the girls) and other species of birds have every equal ones like swans where they make for life and are rather equal to each other -- look the same, act the same. I prefer the swans way, but i'm a woman in america. if i was a man in saudia araibia, i might prefer the polygamous way -- but then i might not if i wasn't a dominant male.
2007-12-10 17:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by mockingbird 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In most Cultures and societies it benefits men. Unfortunately most societies are paternalistic and for some strange reason they seem to equate masculinity with privilege and power. That does not make it right, but it's a fact.
2007-12-10 17:08:40 · answer #3 · answered by Phyllis C 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's beneficial for people who are too lazy to make the effort that equality needs.
2007-12-10 22:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't. That's why I oppose mainstream feminism.
2007-12-10 20:16:42 · answer #5 · answered by Optimus Prime 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it gives you something to fight for and when you are passionate about something enough to fight for it, it benefits you.
2007-12-10 17:36:13 · answer #6 · answered by Apple Tart 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋