CFS 388 Lecture 9: CFS 38812_11-29

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Child & Family Studies
• Course: CFS 388
• Professor: Susan Coots

Document Summary

Conventional gender roles have typically defined males/females rigidly: someone who rejects gender roles (like a tomboy) or gender non-conforming, gender: behavioral, psychological, and social characteristics of men and women public lived role as boy or girl. Communication may be conscious or subconscious and may or may not reflect their gender identity. In the us, women are judged more harshly than men for engaging in casual sex or having multiple partners: researchers also found that college women in the us feel more pressure than male students to not appear promiscuous. Internal sex organs (ovaries or testes: 2. External sex organs (clitoris or penis: 3. The hormonal environment of the embryo: 4. Sexual differentiation in the brain: sex of the external genitals: until the gonads begin releasing hormones during the 6th week or pregnancy, the external genital tissues of males and females are undifferentiated.