Gender sex worksheet
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Gender and Sex Worksheet
Answer the following questions in 50 to 150 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use.
What is gender? What is sex in biological terms? Are gender and sex the same thing? Explain why or why not?
Gender is the range of physical, biological, mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity andf femininity. In genetic sex-determination systems, an organism's sex is determined by the genome it inherits.
So while your sex as male or female is a biological fact that is the same in any culture, what that sex means in terms of your gender role as a 'man' or a 'woman' in society can be quite different cross culturally. These 'gender roles' have an impact on the health of the individual. In sociological terms 'gender role' refers to the characteristics and behaviours that different cultures attribute to the sexes. What it means to be a 'real man' in any culture requires male sex plus what our various cultures define as masculine characteristics and behaviours, likewise a 'real woman' needs female sex and feminine characteristics. http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity?
Gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity in many ways. Gender and sex concepts and constructions of masculinity and feminity of being able to tell the difference between the two. They show them as being completely different like males being the protector and the ladies as being caring and emotional.
Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?
I do feel that our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity. I think that we look at males in one way and females in another, we all at some point expect men to
Gender and Sex Worksheet
Answer the following questions in 50 to 150 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use.
What is gender? What is sex in biological terms? Are gender and sex the same thing? Explain why or why not?
Gender is the range of physical, biological, mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity andf femininity. In genetic sex-determination systems, an organism's sex is determined by the genome it inherits.
So while your sex as male or female is a biological fact that is the same in any culture, what that sex means in terms of your gender role as a 'man' or a 'woman' in society can be quite different cross culturally. These 'gender roles' have an impact on the health of the individual. In sociological terms 'gender role' refers to the characteristics and behaviours that different cultures attribute to the sexes. What it means to be a 'real man' in any culture requires male sex plus what our various cultures define as masculine characteristics and behaviours, likewise a 'real woman' needs female sex and feminine characteristics. http://www.med.monash.edu.au/gendermed/sexandgender.html How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity?
Gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity in many ways. Gender and sex concepts and constructions of masculinity and feminity of being able to tell the difference between the two. They show them as being completely different like males being the protector and the ladies as being caring and emotional.
Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?
I do feel that our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity. I think that we look at males in one way and females in another, we all at some point expect men to