"Gender division is not based on biology but on social expectation and stereotypes." Support the statement.

(i) Gender division is a form of hierarchical social division based on social expectation and stereotypes.

(ii) Boys and girls are brought up to believe that the main responsibility of women is housework and bringing up children.

(iii) There is a sexual division of labour in most families where women do all the household chores and men work outside the home.

(iv) Majority of women do some paid work in addition to domestic labour both in rural and Urban areas but work is not valued and does not get recognition.

(v) Women constitute half of the humanity, their role in public life, especially politics is minimal in most societies.

(vi) In our country, women still lag behind men as ours is still a male-dominated patriarchal society. Women face disadvantage, discrimination and oppression in various ways.

The statement rightly states that division is not based on biology but on social expectations and stereotypes.

a. Gender is a socially constructed term that sought to create artificial segregation in the society between men and women. 

b. It gets reflected in the sexual division of work and in the society’s mind set. 

c. Women have become victims of the patriarchal society which establishes men’s domination as natural and inevitable. 

d. The traditional notion of private and public divide continues to define modern society where the latter to remain the realm of men, whereas women to look after the domestic affairs, the work which is most undervalued and regarded as unproductive. e.The society's mind set is still rooted in stereotypes that holds prejudiced view against women. 

f. Rape, female infanticide, incidents of domestic violence , denial of opportunities for women have become an integral part of Indian Society.