Sex role (Topical Term)

2009277330: Dictionary of sociology, 2009, viewed online February 25, 2019 about oneself, as for example in the terms ‘gender identity’ or ‘class identity’) sex roles (Sex roles prescribe the different ways men and women are supposed to act and the different tasks they are expected to undertake) identity ([Identity] is used widely and loosely in reference to one’s sense of self, and one’s feelings and ideas about oneself, as for example in the terms ‘gender identity’ or ‘class identity’)

APA dictionary of psychology, 2006 sex role (the behavior and attitudinal patterns characteristically associated with masculinity or femininity as defined in a given society) gender identity (a recognition that one is male or female and the internalization of this knowledge into one’s self-concept)

Here are entered works on the role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to masculinity or femininity as determined by prevailing cultural norms. Works on a person’s internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female, are entered under Gender identity.

Note under Gender identity