In pre-industrial Europe,for example, the practice of medicine (other than midwifery) was generally seen as a male prerogative. ... The category sex refers to our biological makeup, and uses certain biological markers (such as our genitals) to create the distinction between females and males. ... Likewise, the gender category man (that is, the so-called "masculine" gender automatically assigned to members of the male sex) carries with it a very different set of expectations about how to act, what to do and who to love: Men are assumed to be more active and dominant than women, and are seen to ...

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"Erikson and many other earlier psychologists thought that identifying your gender identity was straightforward; you simply realized that you were male or female and acted accordingly. ... For example, transsexuals often report feeling trapped in the wrong body; they experience themselves as female, but their biological sex is male, or vice versa.... Males are more likely than females to experiment with same-sex partners as adolescents, but females are more likely to experiment later, often in college. ...

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