Gender and Social Production of Health and Illness Health Sciences & Medicine Term Paper
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Gender, as used by social scientists, constitutes roles, relationships, personality traits, and behaviors that have been constructed with social prisms and have subsequently been assigned to the two sex groups: men and women. At the same time, this definition has to incorporate socially constructed aspects of attitudes, values, power, and influences that the two sexes exhibit differently.