Chapter 7 - Gender | Montclair State University

University:
Montclair State University
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EDFD 220 | Philosophical Orientation to Education
Academic year:

2024
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Author:

V. Frederic

Gender: - - - - - Difference between sex & gender - Sex refers to the observable physical differences between male & female human beings, especially the biological differences related to human reproduction - Gender is composed of expectations of thought & behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes Out of all US college graduates in 2013, only 18% of women held degrees in computer science & stuff like that How does biology distinguish between male & female - Genitalia - Gonads (sex gland, group of cells in which matyre sexual reproduction cells, sperm or egg, are produced) - Chromosome patterns - women XX, men XY Humans are more modest in differences in physical characteristics as compared to animals - Take gorillas for example. Male and female gorillas have very big differences in physical characteristics Family, friends, media, doctors, institutions and laws all enculturate people with a sense of gender that becomes normal Anthropologists see gender as a continuum of behavior than range between masucline and feminine rather than being something fixed How many sexes are there? - Biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling proposed a theory of 5 sexes - At first she named it hermaphrodite, but it is now intersex - Born with combination of male & female of 3 determinants of sex Gender & Power Some anthropologists call women “pink-collar” workers because they fall between blue-collar workers who work in factories and white-collar workers who work in offices