Gender and sex are divided by sociologists because gender is the perceived or projected component of human sexuality while sex is the biological or genetic component. Differentiating gender from sex allows social scientists to study influences on sexuality without confusing the social and psychological aspects with the biological and genetic aspects. In other words, gender is a social construction. In case a social scientist were to continually talk about the social construction of sex, biologists understand to be a genetic trait, this could lead to confusion. As the previous section outlined, some gender differences are attributable to biology. However, there are a number of gender differences that vary by society, environment, and/or culture, indicating they are social constructions. For example, in work group situations in the U.S., men tend to focus on the task at hand whereas women tend to focus more on personal relationships. When eating, women eating with men tend to eat fewer calories than when they are eating with women. Both of these differences in behavior vary by culture and are therefore believed to be socially constructed. Two detailed examples of socially constructed gender differences are presented below: workforce differences and education.
I think that gender and sex must be distinguished. Because people are born with biological properties(sex) but growing up as an adult people are required to learn gender roles from society. If distinction between gender and sex isn't, society where many people are gathered together for the province will cause a lot of confusion and conflict about gender which they don't know.
Today, our society, people often have a sex change operation. How to treat the gender and sex of transgenders do?
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