AHSS*1130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: World Health Organization, Gender Identity, Gender Role
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Genetically male and females identical; most societies men and women are treated as though they are very different; leader considerable different lives; Genetic difference becomes inequality in most societies; Sociocultural designation of masculine and feminine or the social behavioural expectations of conception of appropriate behaviour associated with being bon male or females is called gender. With the dichotomizing of sex, comes the dichotomizing of gender ; men rational, women emotional, men strong, women weaker, men visual tactile learns, women verbal. Simplification by talking about ideals and averages hides as much as it reveals. Acts and gestures are per formative in the sense that the essential features of identity they claim to express are fabrication, manufactured and sustained through symbols and signs. Gender identity is not fixed or static; varied from person to person, depending on the situation and culture, influenced by others around us.
