Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences
Year: 2024
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Human Growth Strategy from the Viewpoints of Gender, Language, and Biodiversity
Tomoko I. Sakita
ABSTRACT:
Preconceived notions of sex and gender lead to vested rights and oppression. Therefore, fostering new perspectives that assume diversity as an equity foundation is critically needed. In this paper, biased views of gender attributes are addressed from two viewpoints: (i) the daily use of language reflects discriminatory historical realities and yields consequences in which it is difficult for certain gender groups to thrive; (ii) the social issues of the imbalance of housework and childcare; single working mothers’ increasing burden; legal deficiencies that allow for domestic violence and the non-payment of child support; disadvantageous treatments due to pregnancy and childbirth; childcare leave in the workplace; an imbalance of birthrates and aging, and so on. Solutions are sought in the biological world’s diverse sexualities based on the fact that every organism survives by adapting to diverse environments and creating the most advantageous relationships for its reproductive system. The distribution of the mating systems of animals, apes, and humans is shown, exhibiting patterns of monogamy, polygamy, single mothers/fathers, same-sex marriage, parthenogenesis, hermaphroditism, sex changes, and so on. Human practices that appeared “normal” in modern society lose that meaning when viewed from diachronic and synchronic, global and regional, and biological and cultural perspectives, which leads to the realization of the necessity of reevaluating human traits of diversity, adaptability, and sociability within growth strategies.
keywords: Darwinism; diversity; evolutionary biology; globalism; inequity