Gender
refers to the sex of a person. Every person is different from other. For
example, in food. Some people like sour things and other sweet, or you may like
a certain kind of food but others do not. But difference are not always the
most obvious ones, there are some more difficult to find like cognitive, or
intellectual, abilities and differences in personality and behavior.
Differences do not exist between the genders. Most biologists believe that
genes for traits that help individuals survive and reproduce tend to be passed
on to future generations. Gender variations may change during time and culture.
Some psychologists believe that gender typing occurs because men and women
differ in the organization and functioning of their brains. Sigmund Freud
psychoanalytic theory argues that gender typing can be explained in terms of
gender identification. According to him, boys come to identify with their
fathers and girls with their mothers. It is through the process of
identification with the same-sex parent that a child comes to develop the
behaviors that are associated with his or her own sex.
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