chapter 11 Gender, age, and health

              As individual differences separate society, more culture differs from how each group behaves. One of the ongoing rights fights are the female rights that have been diminished throughout the western culture until after WWII women started to gain the same jobs and a different stereotype. In the United States age has an important role for judgment as well as it can cause fear in terms of society. Health plays the hope card for society but recently it has become harder to obtain in the United States.    

               Gender is the behavior expected to be followed by a members of a certain sex. In the gender roles the behavior and attitudes are made or dictated by society, like house duty or hard labor. The gender identities in the other hand are the changing awareness. In certain culture in Africa makeup is not only for women but for male doctors, this can be seen in other tribes in America. As the social status for each gender is un equal the differences most be taught from an early age. As kids many are taught that girls are delicate and that boys are rough which has different areas that can be ambiguous like cooking that in a house it is expected to be done by women but in restaurants by men. Many societies are patriarchies were the man is expected to be the head of the family. Sexism is when one gender is placed higher than the other. This has caused women’s movements that caused women the suffrage which allowed them to vote. Still there is an inequality for education and a wage gap that proves that the glass ceiling is still present. An example is that working moms still are expected to do household duties.

                Ageism is the preference of a certain age group. As the aging world grows in the grey America more people retire. The fear is the baby boom generation which will cause the dependency ratio to be 2 working individuals to sustain one elderly. The inequality mostly consists of the problem for the young to sustain the old. Another inequality is for the disabled.

                In the united states health care is not provided by the government but by the individual families. Some managed care consists on using alternative health insurance. Recently more and more have suffered from the rise of prize for health care causing an inequality for those with fewer resources. This has caused unconventional medicine to grow in popularity. The largest fear in medicine is the aids disease that weakens the defenses and is transmitted by sex.

                As the world cause differences between genders less single moms will be able to pay for health insurance for their children and themselves. This will only get worse as more working families will have to pay more taxes for the baby boom generation. How much change will be needed for the social balance to be stable after this shock hits it. Only the future can tell us.