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1. What is gender studies?

2. Definition of gender studies?
3. Gender studies and political science?
4. Gender studies and economics?
5. Gender studies and psychology?
 What is gender studies? / Definition of gender?

 Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of study which focuses the phenomenon of gender.
The study of gender helps us to broaden our understanding of gender identity and culture, the
intersection of gender with race and ethnicity, class and sexuality.

 Gender research is vital because sex, love, care, and reproduction are basic dimensions in
life, and yet, the meaning of gender is contested. Gender research offers updated
empirical knowledge about gendered practices, norms, and discourses in politically
significant ways.

 Women studies takes an important space in the field of gender studies. In the past few
centuries we have seen a rise in the freedom of women and feminism. This has helped to
reshape the identity of a woman in the society. Earlier, in a close-knitted society of
patriarchy, women rarely had rights and any opportunities.

Definition of gender?

“Gender refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men, such as
norms, roles, and relationships of and between groups of women and men. It varies from
society to society and can be changed.” Gender roles in some societies are more rigid than
those in others.”
Gender studies and political science?

Compared to other branches of the social sciences, political science has been among the
most resistant to feminist analysis. Political science scholarship generally is divided into
four main subfields: political theory, American politics, comparative politics, and
international relations. There are great disparities between these areas in the types and
amount of gender scholarship that has been done. While feminist theory has become an
accepted part of political theory, it has had a more limited impact in the other areas.
Furthermore, where gender scholarship has appeared, it is often guided by intellectually
conservative epistemological and methodological assumptions.

Gender studies and economics

We still haven’t solved the problem of the sexual division of labor. In developed countries, there
was a widespread movement of women emancipation in the 1970s and 1980s. But nowadays, the
context is less favorable: we have reached a kind of stagnation, a status quo in terms of wage
inequality and women’s access to leadership positions. In Europe, we are bogged down in a social
structure that we are having difficulties reforming: France, for instance, is not able to overhaul its
family policies and family law.

In some countries, there is even a backlash in terms of women’s fundamental rights – a trend in
which the resurgence of religions plays a certain part. Poland is one of the countries that is
 backtracking on those rights, and the European Union’s inability to raise women’s rights to the
status of fundamental requirements is worrying. It is the question of universality.

Gender studies and psychology?

In a human context, the distinction between gender and SEX reflects the usage of these terms:
Sex usually refers to the biological aspects of maleness or femaleness, whereas gender implies
the psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of being male or female (i.e.,
masculinity or femininity.).

Although there are many similarities in the preferences of men and women regarding therapy, our findings
support the hypothesis that men and women show statistically significant differences of relevance to
clinical psychologists.
REFRENSES:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271620057100109?journalCode=anna

https://www.sciencespo.fr/summer/content/gender-societies-and-economics.html

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bjc.12147

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291787191_Gender_and_sexuality_in_the_social_studies