Effect of Culture and Gender on Personality

gender roles can determine which trait  are considered  positive or desirable. these trait are very form culture to culture.
" a persons culture is the most important environmental  factors shaping their personality"

The term culture refers to all of the beliefs, customs, ideas, behaviors, and traditions of a particular society that are passed through generations. Culture is transmitted to people through language as well as through the modeling of behavior, and it defines which traits and behaviors are considered important, desirable, or undesirable.  Within a culture there are norms and behavioral expectations. These cultural norms can dictate which personality traits are considered important.

 In our society when a child born baby boy raped in blue blanket and baby girl raped in baby pink coloure. pink coloure is for girls and blue is the sign of male.  it is our cultural tradition. girls play with dolls , doll houses , etc but for boys special   toys cars , bike , bat , pistol, gun etc. our family in start of the human life  teach the difference in bout males and females. their dress selection daily route en activity , games , and other activities are depend on their  gender.  

 males  duties  are they go out from their houses  for earning bread and butter. females are the responsible to cook their food for family take care of  children and old peoples.  According to culture value females are bound in their houses.   Many gender roles remain the same, others change over time.

In 1938, for example, only 1 out of 5 Americans agreed that a married woman should earn money in industry and business. By 1996, however, 4 out of 5 Americans approved of women working in these fields. This type of attitude change has been accompanied by behavioral shifts that coincide with changes in trait expectations and shifts in personal identity for men and women.

in some society gender  roles changed females working in offices and males doing work like a females cooking , ect. but in some culture these roles are same .

What is Gender Analysis?

Gender analysis:

examines the differences in women's and men's lives, including those which lead to social and economic inequity for women, and applies this understanding to policy development and service delivery is concerned with the underlying causes of these inequities

aims to achieve positive change for women

The term 'gender' refers to the social construction of female and male identity. It can be defined as 'more than biological differences between men and women. It includes the ways in which those differences, whether real or perceived, have been valued, used and relied upon to classify women and men and to assign roles and expectations to them. The significance of this is that the lives and experiences of women and men, including their experience of the legal system, occur within complex sets of differing social and cultural expectations'.

Gender analysis recognises that:

women's and men's lives and therefore experiences, needs, issues and priorities are different women's lives are not all the same; the interests that women have in common may be determined as much by their social position or their ethnic identity as by the fact they are women women's life experiences, needs, issues and priorities are different for different ethnic groups the life experiences, needs, issues, and priorities vary for different groups of women (dependent on age, ethnicity, disability, income levels, employment status, marital status, sexual orientation and whether they have dependants) different strategies may be necessary to achieve equitable outcomes for women and men and different groups of women

Gender analysis aims to achieve equity, rather than equality.

Gender equalityis based on the premise that women and men should be treated in the same way. This fails to recognise that equal treatment will not produce equitable results, because women and men have different life experiences.

Gender equity takes into consideration the differences in women's and men's lives and recognises that different approaches may be needed to produce outcomes that are equitable.

Gender analysis provides a basis for robust analysis of the differences between women's and men's lives, and this removes the possibility of analysis being based on incorrect assumptions and stereotypes.

Source: Ministry of Women's Affairs, New Zealand