Caption: I choose prewrite, planning, and proposal for this project because they could shape the process of how my ideas were formed and changed again and again under the same topic. 

Task one:

(1) Define and describe a significant political/social/cultural problem.

Compare the Gender roles in household globally from both the present and the past phenomenon.

(2) Justify and frame this problem.

Even though the tension of gender inequality mitigated nowadays, some people with feudal minds still believe that women should be stay at home doing house works while men are working outside. Depend on various cultures globally, the situation would be different.  

(3) Summarize and critically evaluate various conversations and debates.

- “Gender roles in household allocation of resources and decision-making in Ghana” from “The changing family in Ghana” --- C. K. Brown: This paper illustrates both the internal and the external issue existed of the Ghanaian household. And the writer further supports these issues by analyzing the social and economic behavior of both women and men in the household. The author concludes that most household conflicts are because of differentiated social capacities for resources and how their product is treated.

- “Is anyone doing the housework? Trends in the gender division of Household labor” from the University of Maryland: Because of the increased labor force participation, later marriage and fewer children which declined women’s work hours, men’s housework hours were doubled during 1990s. Unlike other papers which directly point out issues, this paper also provides different models of household production neutrally instead of gender perspectives.

- “More than a labor of love: Gender Roles and Christmas Gift Shopping” --- Eileen Fischer, Stephen J. Arnold: This paper addresses the gender issue through the example of how women are more involved on Christmas-gift-shopping than men in the activity. And the study finally indicates that most daily shopping is widely constructed as women’s work.

- “Why emotion work Matters: Sex, Gender, and the Division of Household Labor” --- Rebecca J. Erickson: This paper is about the relationship between the biological sex and the primary predictor of household labor allocation. It also examines the effects from economic resources, time constraints, child care, performance of housework and so on. The results were that it was actually the gender construction affected both the role of women and men.

(4) Describe and decipher the historical contexts of the problem at hand by location evidence from both the past and the present.

In the past, as most cultures were based on patriarchy, the role for men was mainly working outside and maintain the whole family while the role for women was staying at home, taking care of children, doing house works, home-made products and so on. Even nowadays women have equal rights to men since they are allowed to be educated and employed, women still do more house works than men.

Task Two:

1. Is obviously incorrect gender stereotypes, like all girls like playing dolls, still remain?
2. Why would most people accept females to be masculine instead of males to be feminine?
3. Is it common for both men and women to take part in athletic activities, do they do well on the same type of sports?