DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GENDER AND SEX

ANGELA CAMILA MORENO DIAZ

PRESENTED TO:
CARLOS GERMAN NEIRA LINARES

PHYSIOTHERAPY AND DISABILITY

A2
MANUELA BELTRÁN UNIVERSITY
BOGOTÁ
2020
In the following table you can see the differences between these two concepts
GENDER
Gender was conceptualized as the set of
ideas, representations, practices and social
prescriptions that a culture develops from
the anatomical difference between women
and men, to symbolize and socially
construct what is “proper” to men
(masculine) and “proper ”Of women (the
feminine). (Lamas, M. 2000)
➢ Gender refers to the social and
cultural differences between men
and women
➢ It has two categories: masculine and
feminine
➢ Gender roles, expectations may
differ, across time and culture
➢ Gender distinctions are created by
social norms
SEX
It is an interaction between complex
biological components, such as genetics,
hormones and differentiated brain
responses, but which manifest and develop
in the psychosocial field from sexual
dimorphism.(Escobar, S. 2016)
➔ Sex refers to the biological and
physiological differences between
men and women
➔ Sex has two main two categories:
male and female
➔ Sex remains the same regardless of
time and culture
➔ It´s created by the reproduction
needs, that is, biological features
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