GENDER INVOLVEMENT

Question 1

What is sex?

Answer 1

• either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions

Question 2

What is gender?

Answer 2

• reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones
• denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female

Question 3

How are gender differences developed?

Answer 3

• social learning
• cognitive development
• social environment
• gender socialization
• media