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Questions tagged [gender]

For questions relating to biological and social characterizations of gender and attributable differences in behavior and psychological processes based on these constructs.

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e. the state of being male, female or intersex), sex-based social structures (including gender roles and other social roles), or gender identity.

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Is gender biologically or socially determined?

I guess the word "gender" needs to be defined, but that is part of the problem I suppose, since it can mean many different things to many different people. By gender, I do not mean anatomical physical sexual structures( like breasts, or a penis).…
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What is the current neuroscience perspective on the gender-equality paradox?

According to Wikipedia, the gender-equality paradox is the finding that various gender differences in personality and occupational choice are larger in more gender-equal countries. When looking for more information about this, most of the articles…
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Are the sides of the body associated with gender stereotypes?

For example, creating an experiment in which the words "male" and "female" would be presented on the left or right side of a screen, and participants had to click a left button for "male" and a right button for "female" (and vice versa in a second…
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Do transgender people have a heightened awareness of gender identity compared to cisgender people?

In my interactions with anti-trans people, I've noticed that many of them deny the existence of gender identity (including their own I would assume). As a cis man, I must admit that I am not really consciously aware of my gender identity either,…
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What's the rationale behind marriages where the man is much older?

It is not uncommon to see couples where the two spouses are twenty to thirty years apart in age, that is, one third to one half of a lifetime apart. In such cases, it is much more common for the man, rather than the woman, to be the older. Such…
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Are traditional masculinity norms optimal in terms of mating preferences?

Are traditional masculinity norms optimal in terms of mating preferences? In other words, do women prefer men who exhibit those traditional gender norms of masculinity? Traditional gender norms of masculinity: strongness, muscularity, braveness,…
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Do women naturally form groups to defend themselves?

What I'm describing is also further explained in this post, written by and for women apparently. Can this behaviour be attributed to the whole gender? Is it a social construct or the outcome of biological differences? And can we generalise about…
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Why there are tomboy but no Tomgirls?

Tomboys are girls who behave like men but most of them are not transgender and lesbian. But why there are no tomgirls, boys who behave like girls but are not transgender and homosexual? What is the the reason?
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