Gender Bias

Gender bias is behavior that shows favoritism toward one gender over another. Most often, gender bias is the act of favoring men and/or boys over women and/or girls. However, this is not always the case. In order to define gender bias completely, we first must make a distinction between the terms gender and sex. When we use the term gender , we mean socially constructed expectations and roles for women and men, for girls and boys. Specifically, girls and women are expected to demonstrate feminine behavior, and boys and men are expected to act masculine. By sex , we mean biological differences assigned to females and males in order to distinguish between the two. The biological characteristics assigned to females and males often consist of primary or secondary sex characteristics.

Biological sex · Developmental psychology · Gender bias · Gender equality · Sociology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Sex and Gender in Healthcare · Social Psychology

• Failing at fairness

  David M Sadker, Myra Sadker•Failing at fairness•1994

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• Thinking about women

  Margaret L Andersen•Thinking about women•1983

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