TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1982//
TI  - A critical examination of the concept of gender
JO  - Sex roles
A1  - Freimuth, Marilyn J.
A1  - Hornstein, Gail A.
SP  - 515
EP  - 532
VL  - 8
IS  - 5
N2  - Although psychologists have become increasingly interested in such areas as sex differences, gender identity, and sex roles, the concept of gender remains ill defined. We undertake a critical review of this concept and try to show that (a) if the term gender is taken to refer to a set of biological and psychological variables which are related to one another in a complex way, and (b) if gender differences are treated as differences in degree and not in kind, then the concept of gender can be used in a meaningful way to make sense of the things we observe about people.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0360-0025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00287716
ID  - ref1
ER  -