West and Zimmerman define gender as "the performance of activities and actions that arise from the chosen sexual category with which a person identifies (29)." This would mean that an individual who chooses to identify as a woman like Agnes would have to keep up with that identity permanently during daily interactions; rather, than a facade, or a two-faced person who shows himself differently in the public and domestic spheres. Since this theory focuses on social interaction, one may ask whether gender identity is fixed or flexible. Considering everyday interactions, no two conversations a group of people can have will be “exactly the same”, similarly it can be said that yes, gender is a fixed trait, but it is also flexible. Keeping in mind that culture and society are constantly evolving and are meant to adapt to new situations, what was considered a fixed gender at one point in an individual's life can change over time. for example, women in many Western, Asian, Middle Eastern or Native societies and cultures were seen as housewives and housewives who remained in the domestic sphere, today this ideology has changed where there are more women in the workforce than in previous generations and of the opposite gender . Flexibility is seen in the fact that although a woman can have her share within the household chores, she can also hold a