Talk:Gender

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Former good articleGender was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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    The rise of criticism against the WID approach led to the emergence of a new theory, that of Women and Development (WAD).[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhum.group2 (talkcontribs) 17 May 2019 (UTC)

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    1. ^ Muyoyeta, Lucy (2004). Women, Gender and Development (PDF). Zambia: Women for Change. ISBN 095351367X.

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    In contemporary times, most literature and institutions that are concerned with women's role in development incorporate a GAD perspective, with the United Nations taking the lead of mainstreaming the GAD approach through its system and development policies. [1]— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhum.group2 (talkcontribs) 17 May 2019 (UTC)

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    1. ^ United Nations. Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues, & Advancement of Women (2002). Gender Mainstreaming an Overview (PDF). New York: United Nations Publications.

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    The picture of a naked man abd a naked woman illustrate human sexes. It does not illustrate their genders (which as drawings they can't have). A depiction of human genders would need to involve some element of how two people behave as society provides for them to act according to their sexes. For instance, the male might be holding a hunting weapon appropriate for big game, and the female might be weaving a basket. P0M (talk) 16:44, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

    By the time the Pioneer plaque bearing that image launched, 1) The terms gender and sex had started to be used more interchangeably, and 2) most human societies had evolved far beyond the hunter/gatherer stage. Funcrunch (talk) 19:48, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
    This article has changed a lot since I first started working on it. Back then "gender" was the most common way to refer to whether any organism, human or otherwise, was male or female. And by "most common," I mean "in the English language overall," not "in the social sciences as written in English." If you said "sex," it'd be like that time on The Simpsons, when Lisa said "These dolls are sexist" and the other girls laughed and said "Lisa said a dirty word!" As Haig writes, in and around 2003, the words were functionally interchangeable. I like that the article shows that the FDA changed its in-house definition of the term more than once. We could use a few examples from outside the U.S. Darkfrog24 (talk) 20:45, 11 August 2024 (UTC)Reply