Feminist Frontiers, 5th edition. Two common answers are that they are biologically different, and that they have a masculine or feminine personality as a result of early childhood experience. Gender differences are socially constructed.
Individuals become carriers of a gendered culture through socialization.
This course invites you to become more conscious of your society's gender assumptions and biases. Inevitably, this involves questioning your own gender assumptions and biases, most of which you share with other carriers of your culture. The purpose of this is not to stop you from making gender distinctions altogether, but to discourage you from making them simplistically and unreflectively. This course is designed to examine how and why gender roles come to be so powerful in our lives as social beings, and how other status dimensions such as race, class, nationality, and sexuality are intertwined with gender to make us complex and interesting people. Please visit me during office hours or otherwise.