What are the differences between sex and gender?
What will be an ideal response?
- Sex differences are biological. Only males can impregnate and only females can become pregnant, for example.
- Gender differences are based on learned behavior that is culturally associated with being a man or a woman.
- Gender is socially learned and reinforced characteristics that include one's biological sex and psychological characteristics.
- Gender role definitions are flexible, while sex differences are relatively fixed.
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