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**Religions:** Buddhism and Hinduism

Questions: 1. How are genders classified in each religion? 2.How are they equal and not equal? 3. What kind of gender roles do b oth religions enforce in their children's?

====Throughout history, gender had played a big role part in every religion. Gender roles have influenced society ever since their appearance in early hunters and gather cultures.The gender roles in each religion may be different or similar from other religions. Here are the two religions; Buddhism and Hinduism that have some similarity and difference that plays in apart of the gender roles. In Hindu philosophy, all genders of Hindu are the same. In many traditional Hindu family, the father is the bread-winner and protector of the family, but the women is responsible for the carer of the children and house work. The genders of Buddhism are also the same as Hinduism. Buddhism has borrowed 99%of Hindu philosophy,which make both religions similar. The gender roles in both religions are equal however, women can take part of the equal footing. Although men and women are equal in Buddhism, they have different roles if they are classified as "monks", "Nuns", and/or the instructors.====



====The writer of this quote is trying to tell us that there has been conflicts which involves with the world in every religions that are having struggles in the part of gender roles. Women and men had played in a different part of gender roles where women or men could not take part of the equal footing. To allow freedom for men and women, we should justify the term of gender roles and have both women and men to have equal rights.====



What this quote means is that there has been a lot of suffering going on in gender, especially in women because their always being discriminated by the label of their gender .Long ago when women and men are not equally footing, both men and women had to stay at their own basis. Women could not do any mechanical work or any kinds of work that people used to justify as "men" jobs.
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= = ====Since the gender roles has changed, men and women in both religions did not blamed each other on any issues that have got between them. They're now able to work out any situations that have come between them. Since the changing of gender roles had changed, it gives both men and women the ability to have equal rights, which makes their lives easier.====

This quote means that if women are honored, then gods will be beyond pleased to honor women rights,


 * Sources:**

**__Quote 1:__**
Ward, Fred. "Gender Role Quotes." //Latest Quotes | Famous, Funny & Inspirational Quotes & Sayings //. Fred Ward, 2011. Web. 10 Nov. 2011. .

__**Quote 2:**__
Anonymous. "Gender Roles, Information about Gender Roles." //Internet FAQ Archives - Online Education - Faqs.org //. Advameg, 2011. Web. 10 Nov. 2011. .

__**Quote 3:**__ Anonymous. "What Are Some Buddhism Gender Roles? - Yahoo! Answers." //Yahoo! Answers - Home //. 2011. Web. 10 Nov. 2011. .

__**Quote 4:**__ Bajekal, Chinmay. "Hinduism:only Religion with Gender Equality." //IndiaDivine: Daily News on Hinduism, Yoga, Health and Natural Healing //. Anonymous, 20 Apr. 2005. Web. 10 Nov. 2011. .

**Benchmark Reflection:**
**Overall Summary:** Before getting into this benchmark project, we started this religion unit by reading the "Power of the Myth." This story mainly focuses on RELIGIONS, SPIRITUALS, and BELIEFS; it also talks about why people may or may not believe in myths. The second thing, we had watched a film maker of Islam, which talks about all the stereo types about Islam religion. In this religion unit, we also studied, read, and discussed about the religions of Buddhism and Hinduism. For our mini-project of religion, we did a role play on spirituality thinkers. This is where everyone had to choose a spiritual thinker, researched about the person, and then we gathered around to act out as the spiritual thinker we chose to research on and had some discussions. Lastly, we were given a religion benchmark to end this religion unit.

**Why did you choose this topic? What different things did you learn while researching and creating this project?**
==- I chose this topic because I thought it was interesting to know how other religions classified their gender roles. The two religions I chose to research on was Buddhism and Hinduism. Although I'm Buddhism and know some of the history behind Buddhism aspects, I wanted to compare my religion gender roles to another religion gender roles.==

**How did you feel about the final product? What are its strengths and its weaknesses?**
==**- I can confidentially say I'm pretty disappointed/proud at the same time with the final project. I'm actually proud that I have gotten over with this project, but I'm also pretty disappointed while working on this project because if I didn't have any technical difficulties, I would have done better...and procrastination...I should definitely stop doing my work at the last minutes, because something can go wrong with the technology tools.**==