ABSTRACT
This chapter explores: gender roles employment and educational achievement by gender, the impact of culture and society on defining gender roles, transgender, and children and transgender, and gender and identity. The terms 'gender' and 'sex' are often used interchangeably, and to make the distinction between male and female, boy and girl, man and woman. Gender is also a lived experience. While sex is about biological characteristics and the physical factors that result from this, for example, whether one can have a baby or not, gender is about how we are positioned in society and the relationships we have that result from our acquired or chosen gender. Sometimes, the doctors get it wrong at birth, for medical reasons, for example, in cases where a person may have complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (cAIS), which can cause 'a mixture of female and male characteristics'. However, gender variance also occurs though 'gender dysphoria'.
