Gender Health
Gender and sex are usually used interchangeably in our everyday conversation. However, the two are not the same and it is important to distinguish between both of them, for clarity.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.) sex is defined as “either of the two divisions of organic beings distinguished as male and female respectively.” Sex specifically refers to the biological differences that occur between men and women such as differences in chromosomes, hormones, and internal and external reproductive organs.
Gender, on the other hand, is defined in Oxford’s as “a euphemism for the sex of a human being, often intended to emphasize the social and cultural, as opposed to the biological, distinctions between the sexes.”
Gender specifically refers to the factors in the environment that determine what it means in society to be either male or female. To simplify it even further, sex is the biological group into which we are born and gender includes what it means within society to be labeled as either male or female and the corresponding roles that go along with the labels, that is "Male" and "female" are sex categories, while "masculine" and "feminine" are gender categories.
Gender is a basic social stratify that both interacts with and is influenced by many other aspects of society. This social stratification between the sexes, leads to differential access to all parts of society whether it is jobs, health care, or discriminatory policies. This differential treatment that men and women experience manifests itself differently among the sexes and could help to explain some of the variations in health that we see among men and women.
Societal and biology factors play a role in helping to explain some of the differences the impact of gender health care has on male and female. Women and men do not seem to suffer from the same types of diseases nor do not react in the same manner. One of the most basic statistics that exemplifies this is the
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.) sex is defined as “either of the two divisions of organic beings distinguished as male and female respectively.” Sex specifically refers to the biological differences that occur between men and women such as differences in chromosomes, hormones, and internal and external reproductive organs.
Gender, on the other hand, is defined in Oxford’s as “a euphemism for the sex of a human being, often intended to emphasize the social and cultural, as opposed to the biological, distinctions between the sexes.”
Gender specifically refers to the factors in the environment that determine what it means in society to be either male or female. To simplify it even further, sex is the biological group into which we are born and gender includes what it means within society to be labeled as either male or female and the corresponding roles that go along with the labels, that is "Male" and "female" are sex categories, while "masculine" and "feminine" are gender categories.
Gender is a basic social stratify that both interacts with and is influenced by many other aspects of society. This social stratification between the sexes, leads to differential access to all parts of society whether it is jobs, health care, or discriminatory policies. This differential treatment that men and women experience manifests itself differently among the sexes and could help to explain some of the variations in health that we see among men and women.
Societal and biology factors play a role in helping to explain some of the differences the impact of gender health care has on male and female. Women and men do not seem to suffer from the same types of diseases nor do not react in the same manner. One of the most basic statistics that exemplifies this is the