Feminism, according to the “Feminist Politics Where We Stand,” is defined as “a drive to end chauvinism, sexist mistreatment, and oppression.” Feminism implies a program that is used to campaign for women’s or female rights based on sex that has been violated. Issues on sexual liberation, violence, divorce and custody laws changes, and reproductive rights for women have been worked on by activists.

Earlier, my thinking on feminism was that only women take part in the campaign against female exploitation and oppression. The paper shows that there is no gender in campaigning against the wrongs or violations of female rights (Hooks 1). Therefore, both male and female activists can participate in the feminist movement. Both men and women live a mutual life; hence, we live a life that has a vision, living with interaction being shaped by mutuality. Men and women have entered the workforce and need equal pay for equal work as men. Domestic issues, for instance, are known to be a female working all the house chores in the patriarchy. This should not be the case, according to this paper. This is because females have attained the same qualifications as men, and therefore they have to share equally what they do at home.

Gender is the roles that females and males are culturally and socially expected to do based on their biological sex (Hooks 29). ” According to sex and gender 101”, gender can be put into three categories; gender identity, gender assignment, and gender expression. A person is either categorized to be feminine or masculine based on his or her external genitalia. Also, the thinking or thought that an individual has on his or herself concerning gender is identification. In addition, one expresses his or her gender identity by the way he or her clothes, walking style, and makeup. Gender and sex can be used together, though sex majorly is based on biological differences (Hooks 32). The range of identities that are not based on either the female or male is denoted by gender. According to me, gender was either feminine or masculine, putting into consideration their differences in cultural and social life. There is not much difference in my thinking and that of “sex and gender 101”, though it shows further clarification or explanation of my understanding of gender.

In life, gender is a word always used in dealing with the identification of people in society, depending on roles and their thinking. Sex and gender are similar though more clarification is given to sex in regards to biological issues.