Margaret Mead,an American anthropologist,spent much of her career documenting the ways in which other cultures had gender roles that differed,sometimes radically,from those of twentieth-century America.Why does this matter?

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Margaret Mead's work highlights the fact that gender roles are not fixed and universal, but are culturally constructed and vary across societies. It challenges the idea that the American version of gender roles is the most advanced and suggests that masculinity and femininity have different meanings in different settings. It does not suggest that the physical environment or birth determine gender.

Margaret Mead,an American Anthropologist,spent Much of Her Career Documenting the Ways