It was in the 1970s that feminist scholars adopted the term gender as way of distinguishing "socially constructed" aspects of male–female differences (gender) from "biologically determined" aspects (sex).
Definitions. The terms gender identity and core gender identity were first used with their current meaning—one's personal experience of one's own gender—sometime in the 1960s.
In the journals of the American Physiological Society, gender was first introduced into a title in 1982, whereas sex had been used since the early 1920s. It was not until the mid-1990s that use of the term gender began to exceed use of the term sex in APS titles, and today gender more the doubles that of sex (Table 1).
Female. 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
"fæmnan," an Old English word for 'female' The word female comes from the Latin femella, the diminutive form of femina, meaning "woman". It is not etymologically related to the word male, but in the late 14th century the English spelling was altered to parallel that of male.
WOMEN Definition & Legal Meaning
All the females of the human species. All such females who have arrived at the age of puberty.
There are two biological sexes – male and female. Intersex is a term used for disorders of sexual development (DSD). Gender – the roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society at a given time considers appropriate for men and women to divide labour.
There are many different gender identities, including male, female, transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, and all, none or a combination of these.
LGBTQQIP2SA: any combination of letters attempting to represent all the identities in the queer community, this near-exhaustive one (but not exhaustive) represents Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Pansexual, Two-Spirited, and Asexual.
an adult female human being: She's a really nice woman. A woman and two men were arrested the day after the explosion. Women first got the vote in Britain in 1918. She is Ireland's first woman (= female) president.
female adjective (SEX)
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or produce eggs: Female lions do not have manes.
Anthropologists have long documented cultures around the world that acknowledge more than two genders. There are examples going back 3,000 years to the Iron Age, and even further back to the Copper Age.
13 years ago, in Los Angeles, blogger Jenna Karvunidis cut into her custom-made cake. The pink frosting announced to the room that she was due to have a baby girl. Her blog post about the party went viral, and according to public lore, the modern gender reveal party was born.
Research has shown that over 150 different pre-colonial groups acknowledged third genders (Powell 2021). Many Native American cultures have an identity often known as two-spirit. Two-spirit was both recognized and revered in many Native American communities.
Tetrahymena thermophila is a single cell covered with a coat of hairs called cilia. The cilia wave back and forth, powering it through the water. Its seven sexes are rather prosaically named I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII.
There are at least six biological sexes that can result in fairly normal lifespans.”[1] Kennon then lists six karyotype variations in humans: XX, XY, X, XXY, XYY, and XXXY.
In a 1993 paper titled "The Five Sexes", Fausto-Sterling laid out a thought experiment considering an alternative model of gender containing five sexes: male, female, merm, ferm, and herm. She later said that the paper "had intended to be provocative, but I had also written with tongue firmly in cheek".
When biologists speak of sex being “binary,” we mean something very straightforward. There exist only two sexes, which are fundamentally rooted in the binary classification between sperm and ova. Males have the function of producing small gametes (sperm), and females large gametes (ova).
Intersex variations are not abnormal and should not be seen as 'birth defects'; they are natural biological variations and occur in up to 1.7 per cent of all births. Most people with intersex variations are not born with atypical genitalia, however this is common for certain intersex variations.
So no, a hermaphrodite is not a separate gender. A hermaphrodite is both male and female, they are both genders and sexes. Can a hermaphrodite have both working parts? Indeed, true hermaphroditism allows the full function of the reproductive organisms.
Matriarchy is a social system in which women hold the primary power positions in roles of authority. In a broader sense it can also extend to moral authority, social privilege and control of property.
Legal Spouse . Means a person who is any of the following: (a) your spouse through a marriage legally recognized by the state in which this Policy was issued; or (b) your partner through a civil union legally recognized by the state in which this Policy was issued[.][;
Etymology. From Middle English womman, wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman, female”, whence English wife) + mann (“person, human being”, whence English man); thus equivalent to wife + man.
The term "womxn" has been adopted by various organizations, including student university groups in the US and UK, who call it more inclusive of trans and nonbinary people than women and other alternative spellings.