Sociology

In primitive times, gender-role stereotypes have been highlighted.  Men are the dominant figures while women are just subordinates.  However, this kind of stereotyping still exists in modern society.  Even though there are vast changes that occurred in the society, people continuously adhere to the idea that men are more powerful than women.  Gender-role stereotypes are strengthened by the belief that females are less analytical and have less achievements than males.

Tsang and So Ting (n.p) shows that even though at present, there are women who participate in the workforce already, the old idea that men are the dominant individuals in the society is continuously existing.  This happens because a number of people still perceive the role of  men as more productive and more important than womens. If there are situations or problems that requires the use of logic and analytic mind, most likely, men are called to solve those.  People do not usually recognize the analytic ability of women. This is most probably the reason why most of people who constitute the College of Engineering of various universities are males. Most engineers are males because they are good in Mathematics.

In this society, men are also considered to have greater achievements than women due to the fact that they occupy higher positions in most offices or companies.  Even in the political realm of most countries, men are really dominant.  These facts are related to the Gender Schema Theory which states that sex typing results from the idea that the self-concept itself gets assimilated into the gender schema (Gender Schema Theory n.p.).  This could mean that even women learn to view themselves  fitted for the roles which do not require too much use of analytic mind. Because of that, they specialize more on using their nimble fingers.