INTRODUCTION
Social factors are crucial contributors to existing differences in opportunities, rewards, and limitations between women and men. It is through social processes
including socialization, but most importantly through the effects of social Institutions, such as the economic and political systems that 'Gender roles' are shaped
and reshaped throughout the life cycle. Thus the single most important and basic
idea is that the relationship between one's sex and one's gender role is socially
influenced. The relationship is the basis for a 'Sociology of Gender.