What is Gender?

     

    Gender is responsibilities, roles and identities assigned to women and men by society, without biological basis. When you are born, society assigns you a unique color. If it's a girl, it's pink.  If it's a boy, blue is the color. The gender  that begin like this continue until death.

In the mid-20th century, a terminological distinction in modern English (known as the sex and gender distinction) between biological sex and gender began to develop in the academic areas of psychology, sexology, and feminism. Before the mid-20th century, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories. In the 1970s, feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender. Most contemporary social scientists, behavioral scientists and biologists, many legal systems and government bodies, and intergovernmental agencies such as the WHO, make a distinction between gender and sex.

The social sciences have a branch devoted to gender studies. Other sciences, such as psychology, sociology, sexology and neuroscience, are also interested in the subject. The social sciences sometimes approach gender as a social construct, and gender studies particularly do, while research in the natural sciences investigates whether biological differences in females and males influence the development of gender in humans; both inform the debate about how far biological differences influence the formation of gender identity and gendered behavior. Biopsychosocial approaches to gender include biological, psychological, and social/cultural aspects.

Definitions:

01.Socially constructed roles and responsibilities of women and men that can be changed. Gender roles are conducted by culture, politics, environment, economic, social and religious factors as well as custom, law, ethnicity and individuals and institutional bias.

-UNDP 2007-

02.The society constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attitudes that a given society considers appropriate for Men and women

-world health organization 2017-

03. The state of being male or female as expressed by social or cultural distinctions and differences, rather than biological ones; the collective attributes or traits associated with a particular sex, or determined as a result of one's sex. Also: a (male or female) group characterized in this way.

-Oxford dictionary-

Reources : Wikipedia,World Healt organization,Oxford Dictionary

-H.K.Sanduni Navoda-