Man and Woman - the Dilemma of Marital Evolution

Abstract

Although in the social discourse, men and women are characterized by values that are specific to modernity or postmodernity, however, the analysis of social data often shows that the process of evolution must be located rather at the intersection between tradition and modernity. Thus, the status of men and women is in the process of being reconstructed and this is not a comfortable stage, especially for men. Marital modernity requires, as a matter of priority, a re-evaluation of the role structure and gender relations in the direction of equity, and in this endeavor, the greatest challenge is felt by men, who have to relinquish the old advantages of their traditional status. In this respect, a first hypothesis would be to consider women as having the main role in stimulating this action, and men as being less motivated to give up, by their own accord, the advantages offered by the traditional marital framework.

From another point of view, we rhetorically ask whether women are ready for this challenge and to what extent the social context becomes supportive in this transition of role and gender relations.

The study aims to make an analysis of gender and marital role relations, in order to identify the challenges of functionality in the contemporary transitional couple.