Gender and Identification

Gender and Identification, this sounds so much like Gender and Development, or GAD, onee of my courses at IRMA. Today, we were brain storming a name for my kid sister's daughter and the topic just sprung. Need for gender. Why names are there to denote a gender? A name represents so many things, gender/ sex is definitely on the priority list. I thought probably when the system of names started, it was obviously for identification, but more so, there was a need in the society to identify feminine and masculine jobs and segregate them. Well, people married opposite sexes. People were respected/ treated according to their sex. But now, as the world is progressing ( definitely in time, if not anything else), there is lesser need for gender segregation. People all over are fighting for to reduce gender pay gap. Most jobs advertise that they dont discriminate people based on their gender. People of the same sex marry or get into a relationship. So practically the need to identify based on the sex is decreasing. And probably, the need for the name to point out your sex too will reduce.


That's the thought for today.

Yours thoughtfully,
Sameera