The society is increasingly becoming aware of the place of gender in the social and symbolic world. By symbolic world refers to the everyday world as selectively represented and constructed on television and across different factual and fictional genres.
This is increasingly defining how men’s and women’s roles are perceived in the society. Zuleyka Zevallos (2022), a Peruvian-Australian applied sociologist, underscored the place of gender in society when she noted that sociology makes a distinction between sex and gender. “Sexes are the biological traits that societies use to assign people into the category of either male or female, whether it be through a focus on chromosomes, genitalia, or some other physical ascription. When people talk about the differences between men and women they are often drawing on sex – on rigid ideas of biology – rather than gender, which is an understanding of how society shapes our understanding of the perspective of those biological categories,” Zevallos observes.
