Chapter 11 Sex and Gender

The attitudes and behaviors that are considered appropriately “masculine” or “feminine” in a particular culture

• Gender roles

• sex

• gender

• sexuality

The anatomical and other biological characteristics that differ between males and females and that originate in human genes

• sex

• sex category

• gender

• sexuality

Behavioral characteristics that differ between males and females based on culturally enforced and socially learned norms and roles

• gender

• sex

• sexuality

• transsexual

The ways in which people construct their sexual desires and relationships, including the norms governing sexual behavior

• sexuality

• sex category

• sex

• gender

An umbrella term used to describe those whose gender identity or expression differs from their assigned sex or is outside the gender binary

• transgender

• transsexual

• bisexual

• queer

A term used to refer to people who use surgery and hormones to change their sex to match their preferred and chosen gender

• transsexual

• transgender

• stereotype

• sex

The socially required identification display that confirms someone’s membership in a given category

• sex category

• gender

• gender wage gap

• transgender

The unpaid housework that women typically do after they come home from their paid employment

• second shift

• glass ceiling

• gender roles

• labor demand factors

A situation in which an individual is at risk of confirming a negative stereotype about his or her social group

• stereotype threat

• gender wage gap

• transgender

• racism

The difference between the earnings of women who work full-time year-round as a group and those of men who work full-time year-round as a group

• gender wage gap

• occupational segregation by gender

• human capital

• glass ceiling