 Gender is organization of institutions. This is another aspect of sociocultural points of view sociocultural anthropological points of view regarding gender. First we talked that gender is some individual action, then we said that gender is part of some group action and now we are putting forward an other point of view which says that gender works as organizer of institutions. How it happens let's see some scholars say that gender is a personal trait it is limited to ways of talking in family and among friends are in peers and classmates etc. So this is our personal quality feature property but some scholars stress the role of gender in organization of social institutions. They give it a very important role beyond being an individual property or feature of one's personality. Gender how it organizes it assigns roles and norms of a workplace. At a workplace what roles would be performed by which people. This is defined by gender and you may be already experiencing it in your own life even being a student. In workplaces in professions in promotions everywhere things are defined classified allocated on the basis of gender. This is the way gender assigns the role of organizer of these things. In defining roles it is not gender speech style as was previously that your style of talk and men are women it defines your gender it is not that we are rejecting that point of view or we are rather we should say we are disagreeing with that point of view but other factors beyond speech style other factors like physical power basic rights etc. They are also important besides our speech style. Now a task would help you to relate these ideas with the previous ones so that you may understand what do we mean when we assign the role of organizer to a cultural category that is called gender. In this task I would assign you a particular writing activity in many areas of Pakistan gender separation is common in almost every activity of life whether there is some family function whether there is some shopping activity whether there is education whether you go to school so gender separation is very common in such societies even in transport in buses these seats are for men these seats are for women so gender separation is very common in some societies and even in some areas of Pakistan can men and women adopt speech styles of one another in such conditions because we are saying that when people interact with each other they adopt each other's speech styles and they adopt each other's norms and they adopt each other's points of view so how it would happen when people are not allowed to mix with each other collect information from online or print resources I mean from research journals through internet for example on google you can visit google scholar this is a website from which you can download papers research papers regarding this topic and you can also find help from print resources like books and other things and write a report even newspapers documentaries they can help you do mention sources of your information with your report with your writing and you can also include visuals and maps in this report this task would practically help you to understand the ideas discussed in this module another task is for the same purpose interview men and women in your nearby village or town about the activities ask them about their work daily course in which women can participate you may conclude that with the help of this discussion and after going through these tasks of writing and interviewing you will know that gender as a principle of social organization assumes rule of a gatekeeper because what is meant by gatekeeper gatekeeper you know can allow you to enter some place or disallow you so here gender becomes a gatekeeper in participating different social activities some in some domains of your society you are allowed to join in others you are prohibited so it allows or disallows access to resources this is much more important thing resources are also allocated are provided opportunities are also provided on the basis of your gender the places the positions in offices in organizations and all these things when they are allotted and allocated on the basis of gender what would be the result the result would be inequality so this is the minus side negative side of interaction taking part in activities of community of practice what happens you may change your point of view but at the same time in certain societies you also face the role of gatekeeping performed by gender in this role gender creates injustice inequality just like class race and ethnicity do we have talked about that these factors sustain for both gender division gender discrimination so exactly on the same lines your gender as an organizer creates inequality here you have some practical work this point of view that gender creates inequality in different social domains in certain societies this point of view was offered by scott in this task you would try to address the question whether scott's point of view is convincing with reference to our context or not discuss with evidence to support or reject these views by evidence mean that you would bring statistics you can bring and use reports you can bring some court decisions etc etc to support your point of view you can bring economic policies of the government you can bring job assignments job as allocation of seats in educational institutes etc to support your point of view you can cite examples from history from politics or from any movie or novel that you have recently watched or read so this is that ask that you would do to understand the ideas discussed in this model