Separate But Not Equal?

When looking at these writters and the very defined but agruementive appoarch to back down the constant fight over gender, I had to sometimes step back and really think about the way i even place things into a particular cateogory because i feel it not suitable for a man or either a woman , but here is where I felt that these writers were able to explain why we do that? and why has it become part of every silly stereotype that can be place between the opposite sex.
Helene Cixous caught my attention right awya withthis quote' " the political economy of the masculine and of the feminine is organized by different requirements and constraints , which , when socialized and metaporized produces signs, relationship of power, relationship of production , an entire immense system of cultural inscription readable as masculine or feminine." (p 231-232)
Which is very true , women and men have been placed in separates groups for all of existence, men where known to be the bread winners, where as women stayed home and just prepared the feast and took care of the family. Cixous whole arguement seemed to be pointing to the fact that women dont have it as bad a man when dealing with side of the money, that our makeup wasn't to handle such stressful and time consuming issuse, But now with times changing more of the roles do seem to be changing, women out in the field , hold on to job , paying bills and dealing with the whole social gender of a man's world. Which could be good for most but maybe not to many , you still have places where men act like it's the stone age , and haven't adapted to the multicultural and social change of society with both sexes.
It seems more like these writers wanted there to be a new idea of what gender or Sex meant. Only because society has taken it and made it so large and abstract that sometimes it's hard to fit in even when you belong there. Like there to much hype put on this word "gender" and what comes along with as definition .
The most common stereotype that comes up for us women is the " cooking, Knitting,sewing, embroidering." (236) My question was what idiot really thought that's all that we do?
I really think we take the poison that we have been feed so many time's year after year about a women's role and a man role but honestly i don't believe anyone has found out what they really are yet.