Gender

Gender is one of those things that may seem pretty straightforward. You either have a male or a female. However, there are some instances where the gender lines are blurred. What do you call a man who looks like a woman or a woman who looks like a man? Sometimes, people just have very feminine or very masculine features. Other times, however, there is some gender confusion as is the case with hermaphrodites. So even though gender is something that is typically very straightforward there are things that could cause some amount of gender confusion.

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Gender bias is apparent at times in certain family structures or certain cultures. Some cultures favor males and give them privileges. Some favor females and give them more favor. Other cultures give males and females equal favor. They have put laws in place to insure that there are now gender bias issues to contend with. However, even in these societies, it is not always truly equal in the eyes of the people. There are still some unspoken rifts between the two genders.

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Much thought and consideration has been given to the subject of gender differences. The question is, which of these differences are biological and which are the results of the society that you live in? That is a question that people have been trying to answer for some time. As a result of these questions there are a lot of things that can be done to study them and there are plenty of researchers out there who are devoted to the cause.

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Gender roles have more to do with our society than with the real biological differences between males and females. This is because each society has a different way of dealing with the genders. In some cultures, the women are expected to nurture the children and homes and the men are expected to work. Some societies are challenging those gender roles and others are accepting them. But one thing is for sure - the cultures throughout the world that expect one gender to have rights and the ability to work and ignore the other gender are not looked highly on by the other more ‘liberated’ cultures.

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Gender selection is something that has a lot of controversy. Basically it means that you can decide on the gender of your baby before the baby is born. How many times have you heard of a family with five children all of which are girls? When you finally ask them why they have so many children they often say that they were trying for a boy and then after child number five, they gave up. Well, what if you could be guaranteed a certain gender based on gender selection? Most people do not realize this, but we have the technology in place to select the gender of our babies.

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