The Concepts Of Sex And Gender - 1225 Words

The concepts of sex and gender define the majority of our behavior within society. The irony within this is that sex is not the same in gender. However, the way society pushes roles in gender, the difference between gender and sex is rarely noted. It isn’t just society, but the media as well that pushes for a differentiation of behaviors between the two sexes, resulting in overall social constraints as well as personal experiences that are defined by gender. The first thing is to distinguish between sex and gender. Sex is the biological characteristics that distinguishes males from females. This consists of primary characteristics of sex and secondary characteristics of sex. Primary sex characteristics consists of the penis and the vagina†¦show more content†¦Although factors such as sex do play a role in the behavior of an individual, more often than not, a misinterpretation of what a certain sex is supposed to do leads to the creation of the gender characteristic that is present in behavior of the different sexes. Gender roles relate to personal life in everything we do. For example, the places people will go to urinate or emptying their bowels is dictated by gender roles. One simply has to pay attention to the restroom scandals happening recently with the Transgender community. As of recently, various southern states have recently passed bills with regards to gender restrictions within each bathroom. This restricts transgende r people from using public bathrooms that matches their gender identity from using these bathrooms. Some bills stop at restricting with fines as where others criminalize it. These states include Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee (Bendery and Signorile, 2016). Gender roles also dictate what the people who belong within the status quo binary more accepted genders that are masculine and feminine do. For example, within the work environment, men are paid much higher in wages than women are. According to Henslin (2014), as the pay scale increases every 10 dollars, the wage gap also increases between the men and the women