Gender systems are the social structures that establish the number of genders and their associated gender roles in every society. A gender role is "everything...

sex-based social constructs (i.e. gender roles) as well as gender expression. Most cultures use a gender binary, in which gender is divided into two categories...

feminine, whether by social system, cultural belief, or both simultaneously. Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women)...

In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...

biologists, many legal systems and government bodies and intergovernmental agencies such as the WHO make a distinction between gender and sex. In most individuals...

with the binary gender system. Agender individuals, also known as genderless, gender-free, non-gendered, or ungendered, have no gender at all. This group...

A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields...

or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns...

A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...

Third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither a man or woman. It is also a social category...

Kannada (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical gender) Malayalam (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical gender) Tamil (Three gendered pronouns; no grammatical...

In psychology, sociology and gender studies, "doing gender" is the idea that gender, rather than being an innate quality of individuals, is a social construct...

Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and...

contrast to the gender binary, Bugis society recognizes five genders: makkunrai, oroané, bissu, calabai, and calalai. The concept of five genders has been a...

X-gender (Japanese: Xジェンダー, romanized: x-jendā) is a third-gender that differs from M, for male, or F, for female. The term X-gender came into use during...

The last phase she calls "gender theory" – where the "ideological inscription and the literary effects of the sex/gender system" are explored". This model...

Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender. This inequality can be caused by gender discrimination...

Gender policing is the imposition or enforcement of normative gender expressions on an individual who is perceived as not adequately performing, through...

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the...

system and (b) a gender system. To illustrate, the verb stem -tonh is used for enclosed objects. When -tonh is combined with different gender prefixes, it...

support the endocrine system. Sweden became the first country in the world to allow transgender people to change their legal gender after "reassignment...

Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless...

designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in...

A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex. Gender...

accusative. The gender system resembled that of modern German, having masculine, feminine and neuter genders. The masculine and feminine genders were later...

Gender and Jewish Studies is an emerging subfield at the intersection of gender studies, queer studies, and Jewish studies. Gender studies centers on interdisciplinary...

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the...

participating in the system of gender. In Old English, it did not. Only third-person pronouns had distinct masculine, feminine, and neuter gender forms.: 117 ...

from PIE.[unreliable source?] The two-gender system has been described as a merger of masculine and feminine genders following the phonetic merger of PIE...

feminine beauty. Femininity as a social construct relies on a binary gender system that treats men and masculinity as different from, and opposite to,...