Glossary G
Glossary G
Gender stereotypes is defined as beliefs and images about males and females that are not necessarily true; widely shared beliefs about males' and females' abilities, personality traits, and social behavior.
Gender systems refer to linguistic systems in which nouns belong to one of two (2) or more categories that take different forms of articles and grammatical morphemes.
Gender -role nonconformity refers to the theory that looks at the role of early childhood in the development of homosexuality and explores cross-gendered traits in childhood.
Gender-role Transcendence perspective refers to the idea that to be fully human, people need to move beyond gender roles as a way of organizing the world and of perceiving themselves and others.