Gender and Sex Worksheet

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Gender and Sex Worksheet Yajaira I. Guzman ETH/125 AAGI16CLE4 25 april 2013 Jennifer Gipon 1 Gender and Sex Worksheet What is gender? What is sex in biological terms? Are gender and sex the same thing? Explain why or why not? There is two forces relate to the gender: Gender role it refers to the expectation of the society for female and female, including attitudes, behavior, and values. We develop these expectations with the influence of our parents, teacher, friends, and as well with the motion picture, television, and other sources. The gender identity is the personal sense, for example " I am a female" or " I am a men". It could be develops from the genitals, and the body shape, biological influence. Also could be develops from the clothing and hairstyle, cultural influences. Sex is refers to the physical characteristic, and it refers also to the intimate relationship, or sexual activity. I believe that Gender and sex are different things, because the gender is refers to the sense, and sex is refers to the physical characteristics. 2 Gender and Sex Worksheet How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity? Sex refers to the physical characteristics, as I mentioned, the biological, that characteristic that make us male or female, this could be the genitals and body shape. This could help us to have the first understanding of the masculinity and femininity, in our first years of life. The gender could help us to have the recognizable trait of the sex, and the sense of being a female or male. Helps to define the masculinity and femininity in our interior, Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity? Yes, I think that our concept of sex and gender can contribute to the way we embrace sex and
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