Glosario

Gender

Glossary

Gender

Technical term of the social sciences that refers to the set of differentiated characteristics that each society assigns to men and women. Gender is constructed in each society as a relational system that includes roles, identities, behaviors and activities differentiated for people according to the gender identity that the person manifests. Unfortunately, the gender system is often built on the basis of unequal power relations, which, through violence and oppression, positions men, or the male, over women or the female. In most societies, the gender system is often binary, only validating the existence of gender identities between men and women. However, there are also societies that recognize more than two gender identities.

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