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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Impact of changes in sex roles on family.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Systems of Kinship

Sex roles, now usually called gender roles, are the expectations a society attaches to men and women. Since the mid-twentieth century, several forces have loosened the model of the male breadwinner and female homemaker: women's education and employment, control over fertility, feminist movements and laws on equality. Because the family was organised around that division,…

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