Refers to the socially constructed relationship between women and men and the attributes, behavior and activities each is expected to adhere to. Gender differences are determined and reinforced by cultural, historical, ethnic, religious and economic factors.
Gender is often wrongly conflated with ‘sex', which refers to the biological differences between women and men. Gender means the state of being male or female, what it means to be a man or a woman, and in a social context it refers to the social differences between men and women.