Sociology has allowed people to see beyond commonsensical views and discusses roles women have had throughout different generations. For decades, women were seen as the weaker sex and often as subordinates to men in all aspects of society such as family life and employment. Over the years, sociology has helped us view gender as more than women being women and men being men. It has allowed insight that masculinity does not always refer to men and femininity does not always refer to women as well as the characteristics that most people associated them with. Common-sense viewpoints are not as simple and narrowly focused as before. Genders migrate their characteristics into each other and faceless judgement.