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children used to meet up. He was always the only man there and women looked at him strangely when they met him. This shows, once again, that gender stereotypes are held not only by men but also by society as a whole. The public policy that allowed him to exercise that right was effective. But as discussed in Chapter 2 of this book, when we referred the need to change cultural dimensions as well as the public policies and legislation, - what he experienced in his social