D
doing gender - How people try to display masculinity or femininity through attitudes, traits, clothing, symbols, and behaviors that represent the gender they want to present to others.
G
gender - A social construct that it is the product of people learning from their culture and interactions with others what behaviors and psychological traits are expected of men or women.
gender binary - The cultural belief that men and women have distinct personality traits, capabilities, and strengths and weaknesses.
gender identity - How one’s sense of gender corresponds to biological sex characteristics.
glass ceiling - An invisible and often subtle yet powerful barrier of male prejudice and “old boy” networks that prevent female promotion beyond a certain level.
H
heteronormativity - The individual or institutional assumption that everyone is heterosexual and heterosexual orientation is superior to other sexual orientations.
S
sex - Being biologically (physically) male or female in terms of a person’s chromosomal, chemical, reproductive, and anatomical characteristics such as external genitalia.
sexism - Prejudice or discrimination against a person on the basis of sex or gender identity.
sexual orientation - A person’s sexual attraction and/or emotional-romantic attraction to persons of the opposite sex, same sex, or both sexes.
T
transgender identity - Having a gender identity that is the opposite of the person’s physical sex characteristics.
