how do gender differences come about ? Do sex roles result frm biological differences btw tha sexes? Or do women and men learn to behave differently coz of the effect of culture and society ?

Dude, for your question.......................first of all ask urself..........egg came first or hen.............................then question about existence of men and women.........it is demand of nature.......................and there would have never such a huge popultion in earth...............or are trying to think that we will come out like in matrix movie........................It is great to have diff gender availabe in this universe coz it makes this homosapiens going............we are lucky not extint yet............
If u look at the hinud mythology it says first manking was manu....................and he was given a company by god taking his one ribs............he created women......coz manu asked god...........why all the animals have couples why i am alone.........
the other thing is why we have diiff nature coz of evolution................we men started going for hunting and women started picking the food........taking care of rest of things in cave................our mentality grow superiour coz we were providing food.......
do u know why women talk a lot...........coz when they start to pluck the fruits and gather the woods for fire.........they started talking to each other.........so they became talkative coz they have nothing to do but talk while plucking the fruit.......men became hunters so we had to be silence and get the target.....................average women speaks 6000 word a day and men 2000 word a day................

aru kura lord pashupatinath lai sodnu

hahahah... aagra kura gaagra banauna ta moneyminded lai kasle jitne? this is so funny... ! where do you come with such strange concepts? you have tried to hit the target but missed it completely. Anyway you keep us entertained... ! Thanks!

SofT

I gather MM has not missed the target by much here,
Chick or egg: if you go all the way to prebiotic soup, the Biological manu if you will, the prevailing means of increasing the number was self replication, in the chain of being able to adapt from one competing environment to the next brought about the diversity in life and sexual as well as asexual reproduction, therefore neither chicken came first nor egg, but both came at the same time, Kaboooom!!!.
As far as culture and biology in creating sex roles is concerned, as MM has pointed out culture has a lot to do with it, the term MEME goes for characteristics transported/ reinforced via culture finally taking the form of a gene, as an example of it memes are seen as responsible carrier for flourishing of homosexuality in human culture, in congruent with MMs story above, In population during hunter gathers time, there used to be some men who rather stayed home with the women (because the population of women was less) to help them out in the house chores, and in due course of time as this happened generation after generation, this cultural memes adapted itself as a physical characteristics in human male population where some men with this gene opted to stay home by default because they were born with a GAY GENE, same with the gay female gene who went hunting with men earlier in time because in some population, the number of men was less.
Of course for women giving birth is what forces them to adapt into gender roles but it�s the culture that can reinforce or cancel out these roles, so be careful when you say something like me run faster then women or women cook better then men. The word count/minute may not hold the same in all the cultures and is apt to change in due generation.

I am shocked .... am I in the time machine.... am I living in the world 2000 years back... people are still believing in creating women by the bone of the rib... gosh... I want to keep record of all these things... people teach me more... more please... I want to see how 2000 years back earth was like.... how the people from that era response..

going back 2000 yrs bak is not possible for you, even if the time machine was invented. why?? you didnt exist 2000 yrs bak, how cud you travel back to somepalce at sometime, where you didnt exist....of course you with time machine, you may be able to go bak in time and reread what you have written, but cannot redo what you ahve done...

Well confused seems all impossible things keeps on happening these days....when women can be formed from the rib of man ... what is there to be confused of me going back in time machine... yeah just because we are different era ... we are shocked with each other... probably???

Disco,
I agree with you... what u say makes sense. You must be a genetic or an anthropology student... reading the terminologies you use. When I said MM missed the target... what I meant was... he began my matrix ... then manu... then he goes to cavemen and women (here he is right about formation of gender roles)... then about superiority then in the end he goes on to point out how many words women and men speak. This is where I think he missed the target.

I assumed that the thread initiator was talking more about the present day gender roles, that were one way or the other imposed (or not) by societal or cultural contexts.

Of course, there is no possibility (till now) of interchanging biological roles... but gender roles, that have been given by culture/society, are interchangeable because that is in cotrol of every man and woman (but pretty difficult! :-))... I have not heard any guy ask his wife/gf to fix the plumbing yet !

SofT