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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Gender Roles in Changing Structure of Family.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Systems of Kinship

Gender roles are the socially prescribed expectations attached to being a man or a woman. In the traditional family these roles were built into the family's structure. As that structure changes through nuclearisation, dual earning, migration and new household forms, gender roles are being renegotiated. The change is real but uneven.

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  • Gender roles in the traditional structure
  • How structural change reshapes roles
  • Limits of change
  • Conclusion

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