Rather than being something which someone “has” or subscribes to, gender is instead something that someone “does” or “performs.” Gender is not something that is static, innate, and universal, but it is dynamic, socially constructed, and both experienced and acted out in a great number of different ways. While the “nurture” side gets past the reduction of gender to biology, it fails to acknowledge that the social factors which influence the development of gender identities extend beyond childhood and adolescence all the way through a person 's life. Also, though there is a relationship between sex and gender, the two concepts are analytically distinct and can interact with each other in a variety of ways which reflect the vastly different ways in which individuals are socialized. Intrinsic to this notion of gender is that is a social phenomena which is prevalent in literally every element and sphere of social life, and is shaped by individuals collectively depending on cultural and historical contexts (Thomas, May…