Eth125 R8 Gender Sex

Associate Program Material

Gender and Sex Worksheet

Answer the following questions in 50 to 150 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

What is gender? What is sex in biological terms? Are gender and sex the same thing? Explain why or why not?

Sex is male and. female

Gender is masculine and feminine

Sex would be referredto as biological differences, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs.

Gender is charateristics describes of cutlture or society as masculine or feminine.

Gender and sex are descriptions of a woman and a man, each one has different sexual organs so we are not the same.

How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity?

As women and men or girls and boys gender is our social and legal status. How you express and feel about your gender would be known as a gender identity. Gender roles are determined by culture as to what does it mean to be masculine or feminine or to be a woman or man. Women or men is not just determined by our sex organs, it will include mix beliefs, charcteristics,or behaviors.

Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?

By embracing diversity it is a set up of conscious practices that will involve by understanding diversity is included not only in ways of being but as a way of knowing as well. For people to see how some of us see ourselves and how others perceive us.

• Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to our understanding of sexual orientation? Explain.

Yes, I would agree and have to say that our concepts of gender and sex do contribute to our understanding of sexual orientation in many ways. As long as we have an understanding of what each gender is and what they provide, as ourselves we make the decision on who or what we want out of life.