Sex refers to male or female, while gender refers to masculine or feminine.
The differences in the sexes do not vary throughout the world, but differences in gender do.
Here are some examples of characteristics related to sex:
Sex refers to a natural or biological feature. Gender refers to cultural or learned significance of sex.
According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary:
The word sex probably comes from Middle English, meaning "section" or "divide." In Latin, the word sex means the number "six."
The differences in the sexes do not vary throughout the world, but differences in gender do.
Here are some examples of characteristics related to sex:
- Females have a vagina, males do not
- Males have a penis, females do not
- Male newborns tend to weigh more than female newborns
- Females can breastfeed their babies, males cannot
- Males have deeper voices than females
- Females can get pregnant, males cannot
- Males have testicles and females have ovaries
- Women tend to do more of the housework than their spouses do
- A higher percentage of US doctors are women, compared to Egypt
- Nursing is often seen as a woman's job, although many men enter the profession
- In some countries women have to cover their heads when they go outside the house
- 120 years ago women were not allowed to vote in elections.
Sex refers to a natural or biological feature. Gender refers to cultural or learned significance of sex.
According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary:
Sex is "The biologic character or quality that distinguishes male and female from one another as expressed by analysis of the person's gonadal, morphologic (internal and external), chromosomal, and hormonal characteristics."The word gender comes from Middle English gendre, which came from Old French, which in turn came from the Latin word genus, meaning "kind," "type," or "sort."
Gender is "The category to which an individual is assigned by self or others, on the basis of sex."
The word sex probably comes from Middle English, meaning "section" or "divide." In Latin, the word sex means the number "six."