PoG Ch. 1 & 2

Gender Terminology

• Sex - Male, female, or outside the binary

• Gender - Meanings people give to each sex category; Masculine (or male-typed), feminine (or female-typed, androgynous, agendered

• Gender identity - How one identifies their gender internally

• Sex-gender correspondence - Whether or not an individual’s gender identity matches their assigned sex; cisgender (yes), transgender/agender/nonbinary (no)

• Gender expression - Masculine, feminine, androgynous, nonbinary

• Gender roles - Male-typed (provider/protector), female-typed (caretaker/homemaker), androgynous

• Gender traits - Masculine, feminine, androgynous

• Gender role attitudes - Spectrum of traditional-egalitarian attitudes

• Gender stereotypes - Women as emotional and kind, men as descisive and independent

• Sexual orientation - Straight, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, fluid

• Androgyny - Possession nof high levels of both stereotypically male-typed and female-typed traits