Gender Roles

     I recently read in the New York Times about how gender roles play a very key role in restaurants. When a woman was opening a restaurant, her hired servers had asked her if the software for ordering food contained a punch button that would determine if the person ordering that food was either male or female. Her response to that question was, of course, no. Why would that matter? Not so, a women even commented that" Women should be served first!".

     Even though many people don't like to admit it, gender roles still play a very big part in determining how we see a person. Still, women are being paid less than a man who holds the same job title or even lower. 

     I think that this is shown in Nectar in a sieve when Arjun is complaining about how he is always hungry, and Ruku replies and says that she serves him the second most food, next to Nathan of course. This shows that men were, and are, given more priority than women in almost all situations.

Bruni, Frank . "Old Gender Roles With Your Dinner?". . nytimes.com. October 7, 2008. . February 10th, 2008 . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/dining/08gend.html?pagewanted=1