GENDER

Cambridge Dictionary

the physical and/or social condition of being male or female

• Does this test show the gender of the baby?

• Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age or disability is not allowed.

Oxford Dictionary

• [mass noun] the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)traditional concepts of gender

• [count noun] the members of one or other sex: differences between the genders are encouraged from an early age

WikipediaGENDER is a range of characteristics used to distinguishbetween males and females, particularly in the cases ofmen and women and the masculine and femenineattributes assigned to them.

Depending on the context, the discriminatingcharacteristics vary from sex to social role to genderidentity.

Sexologist John Money introduced the terminologicaldistinction between biological sex and gender as a role in1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word"gender" to refer to anything but grammatical categories.However, Money's meaning of the word did not becomewidespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embracedthe distinction between biological sex and the socialconstruct of gender.