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1. What is Gender?
Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to
social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to
denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female.
Gender development takes on new meaning in adolescence as girls and boys experience
physical, cognitive, and social changes to prepare them for their adult roles as women and men.
The process by which people are made aware of how gender plays a role in life through
their treatment of others.
Gender Inequality is a Legal, social and cultural situation in which sex and/or gender
determine different rights and dignity for women and men, which are reflected in their unequal
access to or enjoyment of rights, as well as the assumption of stereotyped social and cultural
roles. While Gender Equality is an equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and
men and girls and boys.