Gender, Change and Sustainable Development

What is gender?

Gender is the range of physical, biological, mental and behavioral characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, the term may refer to biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or intersex), sex-based social structures (including gender roles and other social roles), or gender identity.

Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories. However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender.

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Don, P (2018). Gender, Change and Sustainable Development. Afribary.com: Retrieved October 17, 2019, from https://afribary.com/works/gender-change-and-sustainable-development-1149

MLA 8th

Pagli, Don. "Gender, Change and Sustainable Development" Afribary.com. Afribary.com, 29 Jan. 2018, https://afribary.com/works/gender-change-and-sustainable-development-1149 . Accessed 17 Oct. 2019.

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Pagli, Don. "Gender, Change and Sustainable Development". Afribary.com, Afribary.com, 29 Jan. 2018. Web. 17 Oct. 2019. < https://afribary.com/works/gender-change-and-sustainable-development-1149 >.

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Pagli, Don. "Gender, Change and Sustainable Development" Afribary.com (2018). Accessed October 17, 2019. https://afribary.com/works/gender-change-and-sustainable-development-1149

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