Abstrak
Gender role socialization is a process of becoming a women or a man, which person will behave as a male or a female as is expected by society. Usually, women carry out their domestic tasks while men play the instrumental tasks. The gender stereotypes create gender hierarchy where men are higher and powerful than women. The gender hierarchy influenced by patriarchy culture. This ideology presents in every facet of living such as law, politics, economy, education, religion, family and occupation. It is shown in many evidences of inequality and discrimination against women.
Recently there is equality between men and women in daily life. She or he should choose whether to take the gender difference-based role or not. "Androgyny" is an interesting notion to be discussed. Sociological point of view identifies to the human roles which are no longer gender-based. The issue would be families start to transmit androgyny values to the members, so that androgyny society can be realized in the future, to reduce the patriarchy culture.
