Sex is ________ while gender is ________.

Gender is the primary category that comes to our minds when we attempt to imagine any social/cultural life. We organize the world in terms of gender- the work people do, the clothes they wear, their behavior, their social groups, their tastes, and likes and dislikes.

Key Points

• The word gender is used as a conceptual category. This refers to an inter-related set of ideas about a man or a woman. Society differentiates men and women and allots to their different social roles.
  • So in a society, there are different roles that men and women undertake. For instance, men become breadwinners for the family and women become the nurturers.
• Sex refers to the biological differences between male and female bodies, while gender refers to everything else that goes into making us “men” and “women”
  • While our biological birth defines us as a man or a woman, society has differentiated the roles based on genders.

Thus by all these references, we can conclude that Sex is biological while gender is socially constructed.

Additional Information Gender-biased culture can be reduced by-

• Treating the girls and the boys equally.
• Gave the same and equal opportunity to all the students without making any difference between them.
• Promoting flexibility in the classroom.
• Presenting Non-stereotypical sex roles, such as a girl riding the bike, or a boy cooking in a kitchen.
• Engagement of every student in all the activities without distinguishing them.
• The sitting arrangement of all the boys and girls should not be separated.