Gender Differences Between Gender And Leisure

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Demographics refer to characteristics about a population of people such as: age, income, gender, health, ethnicity and employment status. In a demographic way of marketing, gender is a highly influential demographics and in the terms of leisure, I think that gender influences leisure. When I say gender, I’m not just talking about the base terms of women and men. Sex is inherited while gender is constructed. In my opinion, gender is social expectations and societal roles that are viewed and deemed normal for a specific culture and environment. According to Ridinger and Funk, 2006, “gender is a less limiting factor in leisure choices but still matters..”, it’s less limiting but highly influential. For example, athletics was a male dominated until

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