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and, gender, Gender Roles, role, sex - March 19, 2013

Sex and Gender, Not Sex or Gender

“A man and his son are in a car crash. The father is killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely injured. When he gets there, the surgeon says, 'I can't operate on this boy - for he is my son!!!' How can this possibly be?” Take a moment to think about this question. It is supposed to make you aware of our preconceptions regarding sex and gender. The answer to the question above is “the surgeon is the mother”. Simple. Yet the majority oversee this simple reply and instead, we come up with other possibilities such as the...

Gender Role

A gender role is a set of social and behavioral norms that are generally considered appropriate for either a man or a woman in a social or interpersonal relationship. Gender roles vary widely between cultures and even in the same cultural tradition have differed over time and context. There are differences of opinion as to which observed differences in behavior and personality between genders are entirely due to innate personality of the person and which are due to cultural or social factors, and are therefore the product of socialization, or to what extent gender differences are due to biological and...

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