B. Gender Identity is a composite of all the rights and obligations warranted to an individual by virtue of their assigned sex. While Sex is ascribed at birth, Gender is achieved and accepted through successful accomplishment of developmental tasks. Understanding of g.r. The biology argument suggests that we are predetermined to behave in sex appropriate fashion. Thus women are weak physically, where men are strong.
Women are verbal, where men are action oriented.
Women are scheming, men are direct. Women are nurturant, men are instrumental. The culture argument suggests that we learn sex appropriate behaviors from those around us - conventional wisdom. Thus women are weak because of thousands of years of evolution in which they did not consistently perform physical tasks. Women are verbal and scheming because men have afforded themselves the social, political, and economic resources.