Biological Sex And Gender Flashcards
Someone’s ? sex’s determined by physical attributes such as chromosomes, sex organs and hormone levels.
Biological.
The word “?” refers to a more sophisticated relationship between someone’s physical characteristics (gender biology), the way people perceive themselves (gender identification) and the ways in which they choose to behave (gender expression).
Gender.
Gender identification and gender expression are heavily influenced by the ways society expects it members to behave and ?
Feel.
Gender can be related to ? but it doesn’t determine sexuality.
Sexuality.
Others might have biologically female physical characteristics but feel masculine and identify as male, and they might want to behave in ways their society sees as ?
Masculine.
A small number of babies born with ambiguous biological sex, where their bodies have some male and some female physical ?
Characteristics.
From a young age, people learn about the expectations associated with being a boy or a girl, and they develop their gender identification and expression through ?
Socialisation.
In Western society, socialisation traditionally puts a lot of emphasis on learning to make a distinction between male and ? Greetings cards are often blue for a boy and pink for a girl.
Female.
In English, we use pronouns for people to denote their gender. We have gendered words for family members such as “?” or “?”. We learn to address people formally by gendered titles such as Mr and Mrs - for women, these formal titles include letting everyone know whether or not they’re married. Our use of language is ?-?
Auntie.
Uncle.
Gender-binary.
Children’s toys are often marketed with a heavy bias towards gender: “toys for boys” and “toys for girls”. Traditional views of gender are deeply embedded in ? ?
Western culture.
By the time we’ve grown into adult life, we have a strong sense of what’s expected of us as male or female. The gender gap widens in further education and’s even more distinct in the world of ?
Employment.
