Gender

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Gender is the cultural dimension of sex, which is a biological material dimension. Like anything in culture, there is nothing true or permanent about gender except it is a historical, dynamic, meaning-making system. Since gender culturally establish correlates of sex, the attribution of gender are based not on an inspection of the sexual organs of individuals but on the judgements of their performance in relation to the culturally constructed gender categories. If a society establishes a structure on the basis of sex and gender, males and females will be granted and limited at the same time to certain privileges. In the Western culture, the social construction of sex and gender has placed social expectation on men. The masculine world is expected to be non-emotional, loud, messy, money makers, math and science oriented and most of all, exhibit assertive behaviours that demonstrate power and authority. As a result, these social expectations on men have valori...