Chapter 5
Gender Issues
,Sex and Gender
Definitions
• Sex-biological femaleness or maleness
• Genetic sex (chromosomes),
• anatomical sex (physical differences between
males and females
• Gender
• psychosocial and socio cultural characteristics
associated with our sex (our femininity or
masculinity)
• Gender Identity
• Ones subjective sense of being male or female
• Gender (Sex) Role
• cultural norms for male and female behavior
, Gender-Identity Formation
• Typical prenatal differentiation
• 23 human chromosomes
• 22 autosomes and 1 sex chromosome
• Chromosomal sex
• XX: female XY: male
Gender Issues
,Sex and Gender
Definitions
• Sex-biological femaleness or maleness
• Genetic sex (chromosomes),
• anatomical sex (physical differences between
males and females
• Gender
• psychosocial and socio cultural characteristics
associated with our sex (our femininity or
masculinity)
• Gender Identity
• Ones subjective sense of being male or female
• Gender (Sex) Role
• cultural norms for male and female behavior
, Gender-Identity Formation
• Typical prenatal differentiation
• 23 human chromosomes
• 22 autosomes and 1 sex chromosome
• Chromosomal sex
• XX: female XY: male