Chapter 12: Gender

1. What is meant by the term 'gender'?
2. How is ‘gender-aberrant’ behaviour treated within western societies?
3. Why may binary discourses present difficulties for young people with gender identifications which differ from their biological sex? 

1. How do gendered systems contribute towards gendered inequalities? 
2. How have gendered inequalities been measured? 
3. Why may the inclusion of women's voices help to address gendered inequalities? 

1. What is meant when gender is described as a 'primary cultural frame'? 
2. How do gender stereotypes shape how men and women are perceived? 
3. How do gendered stereotypes become culturally hegemonic?