Cultures Society Gender

• Culture - largely involved in defining gender in societies.
• Culture

  Largely involved in defining gender in societies
• Gender as a cultural construction

  Gender is a product of how societies and their culture adapted to the conditions of their natural and social environment
• Hunting and gathering society

  • Gender differentiation evident in division of labor
  • Male members physically stronger, in-charge of hunting
  • Females manage home, gather plant resources
• Agricultural societies in Cordillera

  • Ifugao communities attribute planting to female members
  • Male Ifugao members associated with rituals involving slaughtering animals
• Factors shaping gender and gender roles in a society

  • Adaptive strategy and environment
  • Economy
  • Type of political systems
• A group's adaptive strategy shapes gender roles in the society