Gender inequality has long been battled upon by scholars. There is the continuing controversy of what makes men and women different from each other. Is it in their biological make up or is it in how their culture and society brought them up? For some sociologists, they believe that culture sets the limitation on the roles each gender must assume. Because women are the ones who get pregnant, give birth and nurse their offspring their roles have been defined around the home and child care. And because of this, men are the ones who "hunt" or work to gather food. They are the ones who control instruments or weapons, accumulate possessions and gain the reputation, therefore making society dominated by their gender. It is society that defined and set "rules" on how men and women should act according to their gender roles. Sex typing was defined and associated what behaviors are "appropriate" with the particular sex. In some cultures, there are rituals that set females apart from the males. For example, female circumcision in parts of Muslin Africa and some parts of Malaysia and Indonesia; and foot binding of women as practiced in China.
             Society became patriarchal because men are the ones who have greater access to power, prestige and property (gender stratification). Like how Marvin Harris pointed out, in order to "use" the strength of the males during warfare, society gave punishments and rewards. To be able to encourage warriors to participate they "set" the females as rewards. Only the brave men who participate in battle would be able to marry. And women, in order to make the system work, were trained from birth to give in to male demands like how men were trained to be warriors since childhood.
             On the continuing debate of "nature versus nurture" a few sociologist sided on the nature aspect or biological aspect of gender inequality. In the argument of sociologist Steven Gold...