A critical examination of the concept of gender (original) (raw)

Although psychologists have become increasingly interested in such areas as sex differences, gender identity, and sex roles, the concept of gender remains ill defined. We undertake a critical review of this concept and try to show that (a) if the term gender is taken to refer to a set of biological and psychological varia• bles which are related to one another in a complex way, and (b) if gender dif ferences arc treated as differences in degree and not in kind, then the concept of gender can be used in a meaningful way to make sense of the things we ob• serve about people.

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