In today’s Zeitgeist, we often hear the idea that gender is a social construct. Contrary to what modern feminists and social scientists would believe there is a huge amount of propaganda trying desperately to perpetuate the notion that gender is a social construct. Primarily, biology actually plays a significant role determining how men and women behave, going as far back as childhood. Moreover, men and women are substantially wired differently from each other neurologically proving gender differences well into adulthood. Furthermore, a prime example of this notion is when the issue comes up in a public discourse, when gender as a social construct relates to transgenders. Views like mine on the issue are not represented often in…show more content… This hold true in the adult world in terms of the career choices males and females make. Of course all of the same career opportunities should be afforded to both sexes, but it is simply lunacy to expect all career fields will be equally populated by men and women. That is not to say that a percentage of men wont be drawn to traditionally female roles, or that women will not be drawn occasionally to male roles like STEM fields, but these are exceptions to the norm. To start with, there are certain sectors of the job market such as sciences, technical and manual labour, construction, mechanical engineering and IT that are largely male dominated. Far more women than men will opt to stay home with children, and more women than men will have careers in child care, child education, and nursing. Subsequently, it’s accepted in evolutionary psychology that men are more systemizing and women are more empathising. These are real biological differences that affect how we act. It explains why men being more analytical are drawn to the STEM fields and why women are attracted to roles where they can act are caretakers such as in health, education, and counselling. That being the case, feminism tries to deny the reality that men and women are different, and claim the only reason women are not in more male dominated roles are because of systematic patriarchal oppression. Affirmative action programs…show more content… I do concede that certain aspect of gender are socially constructed. Conversely, think of, boys wearing blue, and girl preferring pink. There's nothing in our biology that leads us to this kind of behaviour, but it is important to differentiate between expectations of gender, and gender itself. Gender is not socially constructed just because certain aspect of the expectations of gender are socially constructed. When one states that gender is a social construct, its basically saying transgendered people are just a performance of gender, rather than how their psychological and biological functioning is fuelling them to behave. Considering this, in Canada in 1967, David Ramer lost his male genitalia during a circumcision accident and so to compensate he was castrated and given female hormones and forced to live as a female. He would later identify as a boy, which lead to depression. If gender was a social construct, then he would have by all means lived his life as a woman. Furthermore, In studies, trans individuals even before they began transitioning had brains that were in some aspects more like their experience sexes than in their natal sexes. In cases like these, surgeries can help by making your body reflect your psychology. As a matter of fact, publications like Scientific American and New Scientists agree that transgender brains are different from cisgender ones. To put it briefly, there
