Biology of gender

conducted as part of the ROSE Project, on students' interest in biology at the end of their compulsory schooling in Israel, and its relation to their views on science classes, out-of-school experiences in biology, and attitudes to science and technology, showed that their overall interest in learning biology was relatively positive but not high; girls showed greater interest in it than boys. Students' interest in learning biology correlated closely with their

Most people believe gender and sex are kindred, but they’re not. There is a difference between gender and sex. According to OpenStax, “Sex is how society classifies a person’s genetic and biological anatomy. Gender is how an individual views their identity, regardless of sex. Sex is biological in nature and determines one 's biological destiny. Gender, on the other hand, helps define one 's role within society”. Sex is based on genetics, whereas gender is based on the environmental surrounding. Lorber

In the excerpt “Why Do We Make So Much of Gender?”, from his 1997 book The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy, Allan Johnson argues gender through identity and culture. Johnson starts out by expressing opposition on how women are looked at through a patriarchal society and not the biology from which they came. He mentions the feminist argument that women in a patriarchal society are “oppressed” and that this comes from social order (545). He goes on to point out, the focus should be on

are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.” This quote by Andrew Cohen explains partially how gender identity develops, through the conditioning of our environments. The most influential factor of gender development, however, is still a very controversial issue. An analysis of the gender identification process reveals two main arguments in what factor most greatly contributes to gender development: biology differences (nature) or the environment (nurture)

feminine behavior is not just defined by the fact that we are born male or female - biology. Various cultural and societal influences also have an effect on the manner in which someone behaves. Men and women learn how to conduct themselves based on gender expectations created by society; the expected masculine and feminine characteristics are known as gender roles. According to the text, “General Psychology”, “Gender roles are demonstrated through the actions, general beliefs, and characteristics

Gender Identity Gender identity is an extremely relevant topic today. Many people have their own ideas on what is right and what is wrong for each gender to act, and these people are very vocal and opinionated about their ideas. One recent controversial story about gender identity was when a couple refused to tell anybody whether their child named Storm was a boy or a girl. Their oldest child, Jazz, who was originally born male, “always gravitated to dresses, the colour pink and opted for long hair

understandings of sex and gender create a binary concept mainly in the Western culture by having two strictly fixed options of male or female. This binary notion of gender and sex was put to the test by both Anne Fausto-Sterling and Oyeronke Oyewumi. Sterling argues that rather than just two separate ends, biological gender occurs across a continuum of possibilities. This spectrum of anatomical deviation by itself should be enough to disregard the simplistic notion of only two genders. Oyewumi acknowledges

is the case with the notion that gender is culturally constructed, rather than the result of strictly biological determination. To say that gender is "constructed" is to say that masculine and feminine have different meanings (and associated behaviors) in different cultures, and a look at how gender functions in different cultures and contexts reveals that this is the case. By examining how media and culture more generally propose and perpetuate traditional gender identities, roles, and stereotypes

vagina then it has been established that the child should be a girl and follow the social normativity’s of what is means to be a girl. Western society does not differentiate between, gender and sexuality based of the sex of a child. Instead these three concepts are seen as intertwined based off of the sex of the child. Gender is a fluidic term that exists cross –culturally

“One is Not Born a Woman,” biology is a classifier that naturalizes gender distinction between women and men based on the physical discrepancies. Biology, as a field of science associated with historical evidence, constructs social conventions of gender difference and instills the idea as a permanent fact. The differing role of women and men throughout history is justified by the term “biological predisposition” and “holds onto the idea that the capacity to give birth (gender role based on biological