With it comes other changes, such as changes in child care schedules, who buys the weekly groceries, who does the laundry, who makes decisions. When wives move into the labor force, husbands like it. But husbands have not significantly increased the time they devote to domestic tasks. If we think we are weak, dependent, unskilled, we will act accordingly. Beginning to take form at about age three, gender identity results from the perception of one's anatomical characteristics and the perception of the way one is treated by others.
Gender identity is the inward experience of gender role.
Gender role is the outward expression of gender identity. Primary gender characterstics are biological imperatives and include ovulation, menstrumation, gestation, and lactation in the female and sperm production and spitting in the male. Secondary gender characteristics occur as a result of hormones and differentiate men and women in terms of the norm in skeletal structure, msculature, and hair distribution.