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The word gender describes the state of being male, female, or neither. Some languages have a system of grammatical gender (also known as noun classes); while a noun may be described as "masculine" or "feminine" by convention, this has no necessary connection to the natural gender of the thing described. Likewise, a wide variety of phenomena may have gendered characteristics ascribed to them, either by analogy to male and female bodies, such as with the gender of connectors and fasteners, or due to social norms, such as interpreting the color pink as feminine and blue as masculine. In social sciences, the word "gender" is sometimes used in contrast to biological sex, to emphasise a social, cultural or psychological dimension. The discipline of gender studies investigates the nature of sex and gender in a social context.

Etymology and usage


Gender comes from Middle English gendre, from Latin genus, all meaning "kind", "sort", or "type". Ultimately from the proto Indo European root, gen, which is also the root for "kind", "king" and many others. It appears in Modern French in the word genre (type, kind) and is related to the Greek root gen- (to produce), appearing in gene, genesis and oxygen. As a verb, it is used for to breed in the King James Bible:

Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind.Leviticus, 19:19

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アジアで最も「男女格差」が小さいのはフィリピン。WEFの調査で134カ国中9位。日本は75位。The Global Gender Gap Report 2009 http://ow.ly/P5LW
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アジアで最も「男女格差」が小さいのはフィリピン。WEFの調査で134カ国中9位。日本は75位。The Global Gender Gap Report 2009 http://ow.ly/P5LW
#celebgifts gender reassignment surgery for Ciara... we all know shes really a man!!
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OGmicky (Michaela Price) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:54:03 -0000
Smh . I'm so frustrated . Can we talk about it l8r? RT @MrWater_NS: RT @OGmicky: Niggas blow mine . Smh .• wat my gender do now??
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SOUTH SUDAN: A More Gender Representative Leadership - IPS ipsnews.net http://bit.ly/4uEkZ5
LearningME (Peter Cowan) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:49:55 -0000
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