Introduction
Gender issues have existed around when humans were born into the world. It endows two significant perspectives. The first is biological determination of female and male. With the different biological characteristics, it can clearly recognize the essential sex of individuals depends on the person's genotype, phenotype and sex character. Another aspect is gender action within social construction. Culture, language, educational environment and family background are influencing factors on the gender. For example, parents tend to buy supermen models for male children and contrastingly buy dolls for female children. It tangibly and invisibly impact on humans’ daily life and mold the social norm on the gender performance. Although gender …show more content…
It can view from essentialism and social constructivism. At first, according to Cartwright (1968), “Essentialism is the view that, for any specific entity (such as an animal, a group of people, a physical object, a concept), there is a set of attributes which are necessary to its identity and function.” Essentialism categories are natural, fastened, discrete and invariant through place and time (Rippon, 2014). Witt (2011) also define essentialism as a property that makes the individual be the individual it is. The essentialism of gender is based on biological sex. Sex refers to a human's biological consist as male or female. Typically, genotype and phenotype can be used to distinguish a person's sex. In the biological science, males are defined as holding a XY 23rd chromosome and females are defined as holding a XX 23rd chromosome. From the anatomical perspective, men and women have different reproductive organs. Men have penis, testicles and scrotum while women have a vagina, uterus and ovaries. Biological science gives adequate conditions to meet gender essence. Men and women would be regarded either masculine or feminine according to biological characteristics that they were born with. Moreover, gender essentialism is also an idea that male and female behave differently and get dissimilar choice in life because of original or …show more content…
From the pictures of these two website, Risk Gym highly focus on the weight equipment and relatively Ladies Only Gym focus on the cardio section. In the Risk Gym, the photos show the strong and muscular men are weight lifting. On the other hand, the photos of Ladies Only Gym not only show women using weight machines but also a group of females dancing or doing yoga in a specific area. In deed, according to gender essentialism, there are really some differences between men and women. Most men are born stronger than women. From biological aspect, Sorgen (2014) mentioned that females have less muscle mass than male but contrastingly male bodies seem to be less flexible. Thus, it seems that it is reasonable for men to do high-intensity exercise and for women to do some soft exercise like yoga or dance, so Risk Gym would provide more weight equipment in it and Ladies Only Gym provides more padded area. However, social expectation for different gender also affects the machine display in the gym. Amodeo (2014) commented that people in the gym try to be more attractive for each sex. The social norm of attractive body for male is great arms and muscular chest while female needs a great buttock and thin waist. Due to this intensified by the social construction, men and women are prone to move toward the exercise that helps them pursue the best body for their gender. The phenomenon of social construction can also be
Gender issues have existed around when humans were born into the world. It endows two significant perspectives. The first is biological determination of female and male. With the different biological characteristics, it can clearly recognize the essential sex of individuals depends on the person's genotype, phenotype and sex character. Another aspect is gender action within social construction. Culture, language, educational environment and family background are influencing factors on the gender. For example, parents tend to buy supermen models for male children and contrastingly buy dolls for female children. It tangibly and invisibly impact on humans’ daily life and mold the social norm on the gender performance. Although gender …show more content…
It can view from essentialism and social constructivism. At first, according to Cartwright (1968), “Essentialism is the view that, for any specific entity (such as an animal, a group of people, a physical object, a concept), there is a set of attributes which are necessary to its identity and function.” Essentialism categories are natural, fastened, discrete and invariant through place and time (Rippon, 2014). Witt (2011) also define essentialism as a property that makes the individual be the individual it is. The essentialism of gender is based on biological sex. Sex refers to a human's biological consist as male or female. Typically, genotype and phenotype can be used to distinguish a person's sex. In the biological science, males are defined as holding a XY 23rd chromosome and females are defined as holding a XX 23rd chromosome. From the anatomical perspective, men and women have different reproductive organs. Men have penis, testicles and scrotum while women have a vagina, uterus and ovaries. Biological science gives adequate conditions to meet gender essence. Men and women would be regarded either masculine or feminine according to biological characteristics that they were born with. Moreover, gender essentialism is also an idea that male and female behave differently and get dissimilar choice in life because of original or …show more content…
From the pictures of these two website, Risk Gym highly focus on the weight equipment and relatively Ladies Only Gym focus on the cardio section. In the Risk Gym, the photos show the strong and muscular men are weight lifting. On the other hand, the photos of Ladies Only Gym not only show women using weight machines but also a group of females dancing or doing yoga in a specific area. In deed, according to gender essentialism, there are really some differences between men and women. Most men are born stronger than women. From biological aspect, Sorgen (2014) mentioned that females have less muscle mass than male but contrastingly male bodies seem to be less flexible. Thus, it seems that it is reasonable for men to do high-intensity exercise and for women to do some soft exercise like yoga or dance, so Risk Gym would provide more weight equipment in it and Ladies Only Gym provides more padded area. However, social expectation for different gender also affects the machine display in the gym. Amodeo (2014) commented that people in the gym try to be more attractive for each sex. The social norm of attractive body for male is great arms and muscular chest while female needs a great buttock and thin waist. Due to this intensified by the social construction, men and women are prone to move toward the exercise that helps them pursue the best body for their gender. The phenomenon of social construction can also be