Evaluate the contribution made by feminist and post-structuralist perspectives to a view of gender as being socially constructed. Discuss the implications of this view in relation to one of the following: work, education or the family. (education)

A number of fundamental changes have occurred this century in relation to what it means to be male or female. They emphasize the notion that femininity and masculinity are not necessarily innate categorise which pre-exist in each person and focus more on the idea that they are historically and socially constructed and united categories which are found in social institutions, procedures and practises including those of the home, school and workplace. Research has shown that what emerges as maleness and femaleness changes in a fundamental way over time, across…(short extract)