Gender is not only what you see in front of you, the sex you were born with, but also how you think, feel act and react in some situations. It is how you were raised to be and how you shaped yourself to become as you grew up. It is a fascinating blend of biological, psychological, and sociological features.
The biology part of this is easiest for most people. Those people who were born unmistakably as male or female and developed normally as they went through puberty. If you fall into this category we can define that there is some chemical structure, some inbred instincts that make you psychologically male or psychologically female. There is significant research to prove that males' brains work in different fashions than females' do and it is directly related to which sex they are. Females are more expressive, understanding, supportive, tentative, and conversationalists. Men are more descriptive, involved, advising, certain, and conversation controlling, as studies found in "Communicating at Work. Principles and Practices for Business and the Professions." By Ronald B. Adler and Jeanne Marquadt Elmhorst. "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler is very explicit about the female side of the biological sexuality and tells us in great detail about being proud of your body and becoming intimately intoned with it. Males don't need the help. They are raised with little scruples with finding out about their bodies; it's a topic of conversation for a lot of high school boys. They don't care; it's a form of bragging for them.
Psychologically males think in a more direct way of things, they are less color coordinated and organized into little cubbyholes, but they generally think more analytically and mathematically....
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Gender is a defining character trait in regards of mentality. It influences the way a person thinks, and evidently controls how a person navigates. And although there may be many different ways for
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People often believe a person 's gender is based on their biological sex; biological sex is defined as the anatomy you are born with. Gender is the identity of a person based on their environment and how they have been influenced. Which shows that the biological makeup of a person and what gender they identify with has nothing to do with each other. Today gender and sexuality has become so fluent that gender role stereotypes should be changed too; over decades of powerful movements have been made to change stereotypes but the work is not over.
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