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1. Where does gender emanate?

 John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as
a role in 1955.
 Documents written by the World Health Organization (WHO).
 1980s
 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started to use gender instead of sex.

2. what is the rate of the different social institutions in effecting gender concerns?

The data show that today’s young people have significantly different understandings of gender than
previous generations, with consequences for all children, families, organizations and institutions. For
example:

 A 2015 Fusion Millennial poll of adults ages 18-34 in the USA found that the majority see gender as a spectrum,
rather than a man/woman binary.
 A 2017 Harris Poll of millennials found that 12% identify as Transgender or gender non-conforming.
 Research by J. Walter Thompson Intelligence (the research arm of the global marketing communications company)
found that 56% of those aged 13-20 know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns (such as they/them).
 Leading businesses are beginning to change traditional gender-based marketing of products, such as removing “pink
and blue” clothing and toy aisles.
 The 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro
(known as the "Earth Summit") explicitly included gender issues in Agenda 21, its platform
statement.

Gender Issues
- Gender issues include all aspects and concerns related to women's and men's lives and situation in
society, to the way they interrelate, their differences in access to and use of resources, their activities,
and how they react to changes, interventions and policies.

Types of gender issues


 VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
 SEXUAL HARASSMENT
 THE WAGE GAP
 WOMEN’S HEALTH
 WORK - LIFE BALANCE

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