Gender

Gender is a set of characteristics distinguishing between male and female or masculine and feminine, particularly in the cases of men and women. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity, with a distinction drawn between biological sex and gender as a role.

See also:
* sex
* trans
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Virginia Woolf
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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