efines gender as a social identity consisting of the role a person is to play because of his or her sex. There is a diversity in male and female roles today, making it impossible to define gender in terms of narrow male and female roles. Gender, says Crapo, is culturally defined, with significant differences from culture to culture. These differences are studied by anthropologists to ascertain the range of behaviors that have been developed to define gender and on the forces at work in the creation of these roles (Crapo 196-197). Anthropologists are likely to be examining the shifts in gender roles that have taken place in Western society over the last two decades or so with the rise of the women's movement and a new conception of gender roles in the family.
Issues of concern to women have been in the forefront of national debate for more than two decades. The Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties demons
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