Gender Roles and Gender Identity

Gender Roles

• Definition: A set of societal norms dictating what types of behaviors are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on their actual or perceived sex.
• Expressed Dimensions:
  • The way someone looks
  • The things someone does
  • The things someone says
  • Who someone spends time with

Gender Identity

• Definition: One's personal experience of one's own gender, described as a private sense of being a man or a woman, consisting primarily of the acceptance of membership into a category of male or female, or other identities.
• Associated Identifications:
  • Cisgender: A person whose gender identity matches the sex assigned to them at birth.
  • Transgendered: A broad term for individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned to them at birth.
  • Non-binary: A gender identity that does not fit within the traditional categories of "male" or "female."