GENDER and SOCIETY ❖ SEXUAL ORIENTATION

➢ A person’s sexual orientation is

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
their emotional and sexual
Today's Agenda attraction to a particular sex (male
or female)
1. Differentiate Sex and Gender
2. To know what are the Gender Roles ● Heterosexuality
and socialization ● Homosexuality
3. To know ● Bisexuality
a. Sexual Orientation ● Asexuality
b. Gender Identity
c. Gender Expression
❖ GENDER EXPRESSIONS

➢ A person’s gender is expressed

❖ GENDER VS. SEX
outwardly through their name,
● SEX pronouns, clothing, haircut,
behavior, voice, or body
➢ Refers to physical or physiological characteristics.
differences between males and
females.
❖ GENDER IDENTITY

● GENDER ➢ An individual’s self-conception of

➢ Is a term that refers to social or being male or female based on his
cultural distinctions associated or her association with masculine
with being male or female. or feminine gender roles.
● Male
SOGIE ● Female
● Lesbian
Sexual
● Gay
Orientation ● Bisexual
● Transgender
Gender ● Pansexual
Identity ● Queer

Gender Expression

❖ GENDER ROLES
 ➢ The term gender role refers to
society’s concept of how men and
women are expected to act and
how they should behave.
➢ These roles are based on norms,
or standards, created by society.

❖ SOCIALIZATION

➢ The process of internalizing the

norms and ideologies of society.
Socialization encompasses both
learning and teaching and is thus
"the means by which social and
cultural continuity are attained".