The first decade of this millennium has seen a dramatic awakening regarding the role of gender that has had a major impact on gender roles. As Wharton states, “the study of gender has emerged as one of the most important trends in the discipline of sociology in the twentieth century” (1). This emergence has given rise to many theories regarding gender issues, which in turn “have pushed the sociological study of gender from the margins to become one of the central features of the discipline” (Wharton 2). Although each group is uniquely structured in a category-based social arrangement, the colossal development of research on gender issues clearly shows that all social interactions and institutions of human progress are distorted in the case of gender in one way or another. other (Wharton 2). The Oxford dictionary defines the word gender as “to be male or female”. He also explains the term as "members of one or the other sex" ("gender"). However, the above two uses of the term gender appear to be too simple, as the word gender appears to have a deeper meaning than a simple reference to the biological differences between male and female. The World Health Organization explains gender as “socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.” In sociology, the term gender refers to the differences suggested by society as it classifies human beings as masculine. and feminine. Therefore, gender is not biological, but depends on how people view the roles of men and women. A role is a "comprehensive pattern of socially recognized behavior, which provides a means of identifying and placing an individual in a society" ("role"). Roles are played according to society… middle of the paper… then, having written Dance Like a Man, I was ready to tackle the gender issue head on, and I think it was a powerful metaphor. Again, you know, comedy is misinterpreted and, you know, people tend to focus on the medical details, but that's not really what comedy is about. It is a metaphor both for being born equal as male and female and sharing much more and with surgical separation also comes cultural distinctions and prejudices, but on another level, it could also have to do with the individual having the male self and the female one... He also comments that I see Tara as a play about the male and female self. The masculine self is preferred (if one wants to adhere to the conventional categories of masculine traits and feminine traits) in all cultures. The work is about the separation of the self and reluctant anguish (Subramanyam 129).