Sociology of gender

South Asia

Middle East

Europe

North America

Sociology of gender is the prominent subfield of ]

Introduction

The term gender role was coined by John Money in a seminal 1955 paper where he defined it as "all those things that a grownup says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman."

According to American gender theorist binary gender systems in which entry is categorized as male or female. Some societies include a third gender role; for instance, the Native American Two-Spirit people in addition to the Hijras of India. There is debate over the extent to which gender is a social construct or a biological construct.