Glossary G
Glossary G
Gender script brefers to a particular type of Gender schema that is a temporally organized event sequence related to gender.
Gender stability refers to the stage of gender identity in which the child recognizes that gender is stable over time; an understanding in pre-school children that boys become men and girls become women
Gender stability is also defined as the concept that one's sex is a permanent feature.
Gender stereotypes is defined as beliefs and images about males and females that are not necessarily true; widely shared beliefs about males' and females' abilities, personality traits , and social behavior .
Gender systems refer to linguistic systems in which nouns belong to one of two (2) or more categories that take different forms of articles and grammatical morphemes.
Gender-identity disorder is defined as a disorder in which a child has a strong and persistent identification with the other sex or the gender role of the other sex and is uncomfortable with his or her own biological sex or gender role .