 In this module, we will talk about gender order or gender dichotomy as something essential. And from this, we have got the term essentialism. Now let's see what it is. Gender order or dichotomy is a result of gender ideology as we have discussed in the last module. The dichotomy are sex oppositions. Now we are translating it into another term. We have talked about gender order that creates gender difference. That is also called gender dichotomy. And another term for this is gender opposition or sex opposition. Now these oppositions, they are a result of some gender ideology. See how these things are interrelated with each other. So how the oppositions are dichotomies are maintained in certain societies. What type of oppositions they have, like men are strong, women are weak. Similarly men are brave, women are covered, timid, diffident and men are aggressive. They can take initiative, they can take practical steps and women are passive and men are impassive. They are not influenced by emotions. They follow reason whereas women are emotional. Men are taken as rational and women irrational. Men are rough and tough and women are gentle, polite and soft. Similarly even in height and size, we say that men are taller than women. On average, this is a matter of statistics that they say that usually on average men are taller than women. So here even in size and height, men supremacy is established, is maintained. These oppositions, if we see them, they have positive view of males and somewhat negative view of females. A kind of difference. So this difference develops images of males and females in our minds. So this is the way the images are turned into ideologies. And we don't question why these differences are found, on what basis these differences are found. What is their rationale? Nobody questions, we just follow them. So we conclude that gender ideology does not just prescribe male-female difference, rather it insists that there is difference and this difference is essential. This is called essentialism that was topic of this model.