In class today we were talking about what is the difference between sex and gender? According to me, sex is the biological difference: male and female. Gender on the other hand is the social differences that have been brought upon the two different sexes. For example, in the oldern days the male sex had to go out and earn money, where as the femal sex had to stay home; cook, clean and look after the children. This was the gender difference: male and female respectively.
I interpret these two as such because I feel "sex" is a very biological term, even when filling out forms and applications to jobs and colleges, the application always asks "sex" and not gender. I feel that gender is a term that society just came up with to differentiate the different roles that each sex must full fill.
Personally, I feel the whole concept of gender is wrong. There should'nt be differences in roles in society because of a persons sex. Why is it that even today in many countries no matter how capable, educated the wife is she is the one that has to give up her job, education whatever after marriage. Why is it that women are considered the weaker gender? And even today the salary a man gets is much higher than a woman with the same education and qualifications?
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