gender or sex?
Traditionally, gender has referred to grammatical classifications in languages, and sex has referred to the biological classifications to which gender is analogous. For some time, however, anthropologists have used gender to distinguish cultural categories from biological ones: Gender roles are indistinct among the young of this society; the two sexes play together frequently. Cultural and biological categories are interrelated, of course, and thus at times it can be difficult to decide which word is more appropriate. Gender has become the preferred form in the 21st century, as in Gender is an important factor to consider when hiring new employees and in idiomatic expressions such as gender gap.
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