GENDER ROLES AND COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOUR
Journal Title: Challenges of the Knowledge Society - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 0
Abstract
We live in a world where, without any doubt, the social, political, economical power are owned by men. Almost all the societies are more or less patriarchal and the gender roles are, generally speaking, well defined and assumed by the representatives of each gender. Also, we live in a world consisting of communities that could not exist in the absence of cooperation between individuals. However, we have to consider the fact that individuals are rational persons that choose to cooperate or not based on the gains brought by each of the possibilities. The purpose of this paper is to show that there is a correlation between the gender roles taught by each individual in childhood according to their sex and their cooperative behaviour. The hypothesis is that gender roles and cooperative behavior are interdependent and the way men and women cooperate is determined by the gender roles taught by each person since childhood according to the sex they were born. Perhaps we all heard that women are more gentle, more peaceful and more inclined to cooperation, all this being part of "their nature", while men are stronger, more practical, more rational and more likely to compete, also according to "their nature". In this paper I will assume that all these characteristics attributed to each gender are true, but I will question the nature’s responsibility in all these facts.
Authors and Affiliations
ALICE CĂLIN
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP122468
- DOI -
- Views 121
- Downloads 0
OPINIONS ON THE RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION
This study aims to analyze the non-discrimination concept, as regulated by the national and foreign legislation. It is important to know that there are international documents which protect the right to non-discriminatio...
PROBLEMS FOR THE ACCOUNTING OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
The society needs good reports from the accounting of political parties. The public power, including the Government, depends on the kind of financing of political parties. The improvement of the control of resources used...
THE ACTION IN TIME OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS’ DECISIONS
The effects of the decisions of the constitutional jurisdictions may sometime disturb the balance of the normative system. This is the reason why, in different countries, the constitutional courts have modulated in time...
THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL IN THE DYNAMIC INTERPRETATION OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The European Court of Human Rights has constantly highlighted the importance of Article 6 of the Convention and by a dynamic interpretation, the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg Court has gradually enriched the content an...
HARMONIZATION OF THE CONSUMER CONTRACT DISPOSITIONS WITH THE GENERAL CONTRACT RULES