Gender role

In the social sciences and humanities, a gender role is a set of behavioral norms associated with males and with females, respectively, in a given social group or system. Gender is one component of the gender/sex system, which refers to "the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity, and in which these transformed needs are satisfied" (Reiter 1975: 159). Every known society has a gender/sex system, although the components and workings of this system vary widely from society to society.

See also

• Atypical gender role
• Barefoot and pregnant
• Christian view of marriage
• Christian views of women
• Cross-dressing
• Feminism
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Gender studies
• Gender identity
• Gender-Identity/Role
• List of transgender-related topics
• Masculinism
• Patriarchy
• Queer theory
• Queer
• Sexual orientation
• Symbolic-interactionism