"Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity."
The social and cultural roles, expectations, and behaviors associated with being masculine or feminine, rather than biological differences between sexes.
Gender identities: Understanding different gender identities, such as male, female, nonbinary, genderqueer, androgynous, etc.
Sexual orientation: Understanding different forms of sexual orientations, such as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and asexual.
Feminism: The theory and study of women's social, political, and economic rights and experiences, including intersectional feminism that examines the ways gender intersects with race, social class, and other areas.
Transgender issues: Understanding the experiences of transgender individuals, including issues surrounding access to healthcare, gender-affirming treatments, and legal recognition.
Gender and media: Examining how gender is represented in media, including advertising, film, and television, and the impact of these representations on gender roles.
Gender and language: Analyzing the ways in which language shapes and reinforces gender roles and gender identities.
Patriarchy: Examining how social structures and institutions perpetuate and reinforce gender inequality.
Queer theory: Examining the fluidity of sexuality and gender, and challenging the assumptions and norms surrounding heterosexuality and binary gender.
Body image and sexualization of women: Examining the impact of media on women's body image and how women's bodies are often sexualized in popular culture.
Masculinity studies: Examining the impact of societal expectations of masculinity on men's lives and how these expectations affect gender relations.
Sex and gender in the workplace: Examining issues of gender bias and discrimination in the workplace, including the gender wage gap and sexual harassment.
Race and gender: Examining how race and gender intersect to shape experiences of oppression and privilege, and exploring issues of intersectionality.
Male: Refers to someone who identifies as a man or masculine.
Female: Refers to someone who identifies as a woman or feminine.
Transgender: Refers to someone who's gender identity does not align with their born sex.
Genderqueer: Refers to someone who identifies outside the gender binary of male or female, and/or identifies with a combination of both binary genders.
Non-binary: Refers to someone whose gender identity does not fit within the traditional binary categories of male and female.
Bigender: Refers to someone who identifies as having two distinct gender identities or expressions, often male and female.
Androgynous: Refers to someone who identifies with a gender expression that is a combination of both masculine and feminine qualities.
Agender: Refers to someone who does not identify with any gender at all.
Cisgender: Refers to someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Two-Spirit: Refers to a traditional Indigenous North American/European gender identity that embodies both masculine and feminine spirits or energies.
"Most cultures use a gender binary, in which gender is divided into two categories, and people are considered part of one or the other (boys/men and girls/women)"
"Those who are outside these groups may fall under the umbrella term non-binary."
"Some societies have specific genders besides 'man' and 'woman', such as the hijras of South Asia; these are often referred to as third genders."
"Most scholars agree that gender is a central characteristic for social organization."
"In the mid-20th century, a terminological distinction in modern English (known as the sex and gender distinction) between biological sex and gender began to develop."
"Psychology, sexology, and feminism contributed to the development of the sex and gender distinction."
"Feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender."
"Most contemporary social scientists in western countries, behavioral scientists and biologists, many legal systems and government bodies, and intergovernmental agencies such as the WHO make a distinction between gender and sex."
"The social sciences have a branch devoted to gender studies."
"Psychology, sociology, sexology, and neuroscience are interested in the subject."
"The social sciences sometimes approach gender as a social construct, and gender studies particularly do."
"Research in the natural sciences investigates whether biological differences in females and males influence the development of gender in humans."
"Biopsychosocial approaches to gender include biological, psychological, and social/cultural aspects."
"Before the mid-20th century, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories."
"Most scholars agree that gender is a central characteristic for social organization."
"Some societies have specific genders besides 'man' and 'woman', such as the hijras of South Asia; these are often referred to as third genders."
"Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity."
"Psychology, sociology, sexology, and neuroscience are interested in the subject."
"Feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender."