Gender and Sex; How They Affect Health

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by lizzy beams6 views·Updated Oct 3, 2021
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  1. Hello. My name is Elizabeth beams and today I will
  2. be addressing the topic of gender and sex regarding how
  3. they affect an individual during everyday life.
  4. Gender and sex may have similarities lying in their definitions,
  5. but they are different concepts.
  6. Gender is the norms and roles that society and cultures
  7. can place on a person depending on whether they are
  8. masculine or feminine.
  9. Whereas sex directly relates to an individual's biological makeup or
  10. more specifically their reproductive organs.
  11. This topic is intriguing to me as I have grown
  12. up seeing substantial differences in expectations and behaviors depending on
  13. the gender and or sex of the person.
  14. Sex determines the way of treatment from birth.
  15. This is due to the norms of gender.
  16. So on that day when a baby stress, neither blue
  17. or pink, they are then judged regarding whether they will
  18. fit their gender normal, not women are told to be
  19. maternal and strong but not pushy while men are told
  20. to provide an income or livelihood and not display emotions
  21. that may label them as weak.
  22. This is apparent within society and can often cause disadvantages
  23. for individuals.
  24. Men may feel the need to bottle up their emotions
  25. and refused to seek help due to their gender norms
  26. and what is expected of them.
  27. This often leads to higher rates of suicide or suicidal
  28. thoughts due to mental problems such as depression and anxiety.
  29. Women face the problem of not being respected in most
  30. workplaces due to the fact that they are expected to
  31. raise kids rather than provide income.
  32. This is shown in relation to the 16.8% pay gap
  33. that they experience gender and the sex they possess, control
  34. an individual's life and the overall treatment they experience day
  35. to day.
  36. Different sexes do have biological differences, but the vastness regarding
  37. the differences in expectations goes far beyond and is only
  38. due to society and what is perceived as normal.
  39. Many people do have a likelihood to disagree with this
  40. point of view specifically for many reasons, but there is
  41. evidence that this does happen.
  42. As shown previously, all individuals do experience the effects that
  43. come with it, whether they know it or not.