Masculinity and Femininity

Masculinity and Femininity

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The Masculinity-femininity dimension explains how the community’s dominant values usually the male is assertive to nurturing in masculine communities, maximum benefits and attention is given to men. The dimension describes how men and women in given community are expected to behave depending on community cultural values and beliefs. Issues about gender have always been a hot topic in the contemporary. This is especially as concerning the variations that exist between men or males and women (females), and the societal stereotypes about the roles and features of men and women. Femininity is an abstract term that is used to define a set of behaviors, roles and attributes that are associated with womanhood and womanliness (Chaffee, 2011). Masculinity, on the other hand, is a term that is used in describing the normative and.............