Summative Assessment The oxford English dictionary states that "the words gender and sex both have the sense 'the state of being male or female', but they are typically used in slightly different ways: sex tends to refer to biological differences, while gender tends to refer to cultural or social ones". This quote points out that while gender and sex are similar; and often the meanings are confused, they are developed in different ways. Gender is …showed first 75 words of 2191 total…

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