When a baby is born, people try to define that baby by a specific gender, whether it is a boy or a girl. When a person tries to apply for his or her identification card, there are only two options for genders, male or female. In many Western societies, people tend to have an expectation about individual’s biological sex to be determined with a fixed gendered behavior, either male or female. At this point, however, we deeply have to think that how we can determine gender and sex. Until now, we only defined gender and sex only depends on biological factor. But, there are more than male and female, such as intersexes. According to Fausto-Sterling, “We may use scientific knowledge to help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender- not science- can define our sex. Furthermore, our belief about gender affect what kinds of knowledge scientists produce about sex in the first place” (Fausto-Sterling, 7).
Then, some might ask what gender is and what sex is. Many definitions can be found from various prospective; however, according to Women Studies’ lectures, Sex is “socially constructed categories based on culturally accepted biological criteria” (Ferber et. al. 2009: 557). Gender is “socially constructed categories dividing people into groups, such as women and men” (Ferber et. al. 2009:555). Therefore, it is obvious to say that gender is different from sex differences because sex differences only “attributable to biological difference between males and females” while gender is based on social construction. People often think sex and gender identically. Some stereotypes about men and women can testify this fact, such as men are physically stronger than women and that women are better at multi-tasking than men. Those stereotypes were falsified scientifically. In the lecture, we have learned that are stronger than women because “male bodies have more muscle mass, but male bodies are bigger on average than female bodies” (Keys, Jan.4,2011). Moreover, women...