Gender Issues

The role of genders in contemporary societies is evolving under pressure from cultural, economic, religious and socio-political factors. However, gender categories are more fluid than the women/men dichotomy. They exist on a continuum between the two “ideal types” of females and males. Most people exhibit a combination of binary opposing female and male traits. Ivana Milojevic lays out three possible scenarii for the future—continued male-female polarity, unisex androgyny and multiple gender diversity. She points out that so far the drive for equality between the sexes has manifested in women assuming roles traditionally held by males, whereas few men carry out “feminine” tasks, which are part of the mostly non-monetised “love-economy”