These obvious gender differences in societal roles may potentially translate into gender differences in the sources of social support.
The various and complex cultural, ideological and practical strands discussed above all contributed to the production of idealised societal categories.
Like cooking, cleaning, shopping, and washing, men can do it too, but the societal perception is that these are women's tasks or feminine gendered activities.
This question implies that care is a complex interplay of different societal dimensions, individual behaviour and structural factors.
To inform research priority setting, a measure of the societal value of resolving a particular research question is required.
To what extent can private motivation serve as a mobilizing force for public or societal acts?
Meaningful societal change (of which accountability is likely to be a key part) requires the overhaul of political, legal and social institutions.
Recent literature, in contrast, has tended to reject this stance, arguing instead that military efficiency was influenced heavily by societal culture.
