Sociology does not have one explanation of gender — it has three, and they disagree on purpose. The functionalist lens asks what an arrangement does for the system, the conflict lens asks who benefits from it, and the interactionist lens asks how it gets produced in an ordinary conversation. Tap a lens to see its machinery, click the diagram to open each idea, then sort twelve claims back to the paradigm that made them.
Pick a lens
Each lens looks at the very same facts — who does the housework, who runs the company — and sees something different.