Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between,
1. a) femininety
b) femininity
c) feminineity
and masculinity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex, sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender
2. a) identity
b) identaty
c) identiety.
Most scholars agree that gender is a central characteristic for social organization. Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women); those who exist outside these groups fall under the umbrella term
3. a) non-binary
b) non-biniary
c) non-binery
or genderqueer. Some societies have specific genders besides "man" and "woman", such as the hijras of South Asia; these are often
4. a) refered
b) referred
c) refferred
to as third genders (and fourth genders, etc.).
The
5. a) sexoligist
b) sexolagist
c) sexologist
John Money introduced the
6. a) terminalogical
b) terminilogical
c) terminological
distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but
7. a) grammatical
b) grammartical
c) grammetical
categories. However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when
8. a) femminist
b) feminist
c) femmenist
theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender.
The social sciences have a branch devoted to gender studies. Other sciences, such as sexology and
9. a) neuroscience
b) nueroscience
c) nuroscience,
are also interested in the subject. The social sciences sometimes approach gender as a social construct, and gender studies particularly do, while research in the natural sciences investigates whether biological differences in females and males influence the development of gender in humans; both inform debate about how far biological differences influence the
10. a) formatian
b) foremation
c) formation
of gender identity.
