We are born being either a male, female or intersexed sex, however as we grow we learn from our families what it means to be a male or a female, or what our gender is. Gender is “the physical, behavioral, and personality characteristics considered appropriate for one’s sex” (Ritzer, 253). Dongen highlights that “gender is a social construction that is a subject to change, sometimes quite dramatically, over time” (Ritzer, 259). There is no biological difference between what the two genders are, instead it is what the society believes what the different genders should be like. One of the examples is clothing: a while ago people believed that it was inappropriate for woman to wear pants, now almost every single lady owns a few pairs of jeans.
