West and Zimmerman define gender as "the performance of activities and actions that derive 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 follow this identity constantly during their daily interactions; rather than a facade, or a two-faced person who appears differently in the public and domestic spheres. Since this theory focuses on social interaction, one might ask whether gender identity is then fixed or flexible? Given everyday interactions, no conversation a group of people can have will be "exactly the same", in the same way that one can say that yes, gender is a fixed trait, but it is also flexible. Keeping in mind that culture and society are constantly changing and must adapt to new situations, what was considered a fixed gender at a certain point in an individual's life may change over time . for example, women in many Western, Asian, Middle Eastern, or indigenous societies and cultures were considered housewives and housewives who remained within the domestic sphere. Today, this ideology has changed where there are more women in the workforce compared to previous generations as well as the opposite sex. Flexibility manifests itself in the fact that although a woman may have her share of domestic chores, she may also have a