Gender And Gender Differences

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

Traditionally speaking, most people view sex and gender as interchangeable, synonymous, and biological. As more studies and research are done, more professionals are realizing the vital difference between the two terms. Sex, according to sociologist Doctor Zuleyka Zevallos, is the “biological traits that societies use to assign people into the category of either male or female, whether it be through a focus on chromosomes, genitalia, or some other physical ascription”. She goes on to say that the definition of gender is “the cultural meanings attached to men and women’s roles; and how individuals understand their identities including, but not limited to, being a man, woman, transgender, intersex, gender queer, and other gender identities” (Zeyallos, 2014). We see sex as something we are assigned at birth due to the body parts we are born with, and we see gender as the way one identifies with their assigned sex. In the majority of cases, assigned sex and gender identity line up, but less often it does not. In these cases, we see individuals who are transgender, gender queer, gender fluid, and more. More people are coming forward about these different ways they are experiencing gender, so many people assume these ways of experiencing gender are new.

For Goodness Sex, by Al Vernacchio, is a welcome relief from the two previous books; Girls & Sex and Man Interrupted, as the focus is about sexuality as a whole; gender, sexual orientation, etc., rather than on the culture of females and males. The author employs his curriculum from his class, Sexuality and Society, throughout the book as a demonstration of how educators and parents can develop conversations with young people about sexuality. Vernacchio covers a myriad of topics such as “normalizing the sex talks, building healthy relationships, what’s the bottom line, body image, eliminating sexual orientation prejudice,” and more. He describes how in his classes, he guides young people through their own journey of discovering their morals, values, and sexuality. He poses such questions as found in his chapter titled, “Gender Myths, male and female, is that all there is” (p. 112) reminding us that the while the English language limits our ability to appreciate the complexity of gender as it allows for only three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter (Vernacchio, A. 2014). However, in terms of gender identity, it is our internal innate senses of our own gender providing for a huge range of ways people identify themselves (Vernacchio, A. 2014).

Sexual health is a very broad and wide topic that has many subjects that are still controversial to some to this day. Chapter four not only focused on the physical side of sexual health, covering topics such as the female and male anatomy and the process of menstruation, but also the social and emotional sides of it, like the difference between gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, , and issues relating to homophobia and hate crimes. These chapters helped me learn how to properly recognize people’s gender identities and to respect them based off of the retained information from the outlines. Identifying as a bisexual woman, I am fairly fortunate with the overwhelming acceptance from the majority of people I have met in my life. I presumably will never know how it feels to not be able to explain who you are to people, and having to find an excuse for being yourself. Learning about gender dysphoria and the disagreeing feelings about one’s gender that arises from it made me question what it might be like to be someone who has these feelings and the conflicts it internally arises. Gender identity and expression being two separate ideas was also something I was originally very perplexed by, but then learned to understand and appreciate, because there is no

Sexuality is an individual’s preference towards sexual interactions. It is an extremely controversial and debated topic that has emerged in the 21st century. Historically, sexuality was kept extremely private and it was not orthodox to speak of sexual encounters, sodomy being especially taboo. However, today sex and sexual orientation is more openly spoken about on both social media and well as every day conversations. Most people, including myself, have at least one or two people that don’t particularly identify themselves as heterosexual or cis-gendered. It is more commonplace for sexuality and sexual encounters to

Every culture looks at gender socialization differently. Everyone has their own set of norms, and according to that culture, it is up to them how to respond to certain situations. Therefore, there are no universal implications of gender socialization. Different countries have different ways of going about gender norms and differences. An example includes how in Scotland, it is normal for a man to wear a skirt (kilt). In America, it would be frowned upon for a man to wear a skirt, which is considered feminine in the US. In the United Kingdom, woman are slowly getting more involved in politics. One become elected as prime minister just recently. In the United States, the men are the ones who are more involved in the political work forces. The

From adolescence and on, people have dreams. They develop a sense of longing for a certain career or hobby, and push to make this dream come true. Boys wanted to be firemen, and girls wanted to be ballerinas. One dangerous and heroic, while the other is graceful and poised. Have you ever heard of these roles switched? Have you heard a little boy say he wants to become a famous ballerina, or a young girl saying she wants to put out fires? The society we live in today has taught and developed many from a young age to believe in stereotypes and specific gender roles; therefore, leading us to be blinded by the fact that any sex can do anything they put their mind to: specifically women. Women who have been told they “can’t” for their whole lives.

The gender of a person determines if they are male or female. In today's society, to some people gender roles are more then just determining if your are a male or a female they determine peoples lives. Gender roles to some people are not just the gender that you are linked to when you are born but the gender that you choose to be. Some females might feel more manly and some men might feel that they are more feminine then their gender that they biologically are. Some people expect females to be more sensitive, supportive, and more passive than males, and some females see males as being more independent, competitive, and more forceful. Some gender roles standards for example in the United States are

Gender, sex, and sexuality are not new concepts in today’s society. These three terms have been around for a long time, but they have only just started to surface and be taught and understood by the nation. Slowly society is learning that sex does not determine one’s sexual orientation and gender and who you are is nothing to be ashamed about.

This integrative review explores the difference of the onset-to-hospital arrival time between females and males with acute strokes. The results demonstrate that the means and medians of the hospital arrival times among female patients seem to have more delay than male patients, particularly in the Asian-Pacific region. However, the various evidences show that gender difference is not statistically significant.

Gender is a social concept that identifies culturally prearranged responsibilities and roles that both sexes are expected to follow. Men assumed superiority over women and preserved it through domination across the centuries. Consequently, women have perpetually maintained a lower status to men in the United States. But the degree of disparity between the sexes has changed across time and currently women are closer than ever to being somewhat equal to men. However, there are still detrimental theories and ideals in society that preserve the unequal treatment of women. There is no doubt that men and women are physically different. The distinction between the secondary sex traits can be easily seen and measured. Unfortunately, a

Gender and sexuality, while seemingly may have no correlation, actually play a large role in everyone’s every day lives as we practice societal norms whether consciously or unconsciously. We choose to identify ourselves on the basis of numerous things such as race, social class,

There are a lot of distinct differences between females and males, but one of those difference shouldn’t be how they are raised. Parents and Guardians should not have different hopes and standards for their sons than for their daughters because it affects their children in many different negative ways and promotes anti equality. Although I do understand that in our society today we have different set standards for males and females I still believe that the way parents and guardians raise their children should be equal.

In our society there are such systems and structures that postulate social ways to define and organize gender, to know what to expect of each gender and what opportunities are available or not available to females and males. These stereotypic ideas are based on certain values and beliefs that have been culturally idealized and accepted by the society. As a matter of fact, the culture associated with the gender system, proposes differences in gender’s roles and expectations, hence oppressing inequality between female and male. In a system, these inequality-supporting cultural ideologies heavily put an emphasis on the idea that gender differences are due to biologically based traits that are inherent and unchangeably “natural” for both males and females. This defined the concept of essentialism. However, those culturally idealized beliefs do not highlight only the characteristic traits or psychological manners; it also underlines the physical differences and appearance. For example, women are seen as beautiful and attractive, who need to try to get even prettier by putting on make-up, by taking care of their hair and making sure that they always look appealing. On the other hand, men, who represent the patriarchal society, are never expected to look handsome or make an impression that they spent more than two hours on their appearance before going out. Men are never expected to eat less in order not to gain weight. They are never expected to go on a diet so that they can lose

Upon entering this course, my understanding of human sexuality was decent; I was aware of certain aspects of sexuality such as being straight, gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, etc. Nevertheless, I did not realize how expansive sexuality is; it never occurred to me that sexual health, prostitution, marriage, rape, sex trafficking, divorce, families, etc., all fell under the umbrella of human sexuality. Books and essays such as Renee Hill’s Walk Together and David Shneer’s “Out of School” showcased the multiple facets of human sexuality and how terms like queer are not directly related to homosexuality. While sexuality and homosexuality are linked, frequently, people mistake them as being synonymous; before entering this class, I was searching for a definition of sexuality, and often in the thesaurus section of dictionary websites homosexuality and or sexual orientation was considered a synonym of sexuality. Formerly, I too would have agreed they were the same, however, after taking this course, I concluded that homosexuality is just one topic in the broad discussion of sexuality. My understanding of sexuality now is that it