Would gender differences exist if we treated all people the same from birth?
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 08:31
in Psychology & Sociology
All societies divide people into male or female. There is a biological truth behind this: different sex chromosomes (XY,XX). But could many gender differences be down to social conditioning? If we treated girls and boys the same from birth, what would the consequences be? More equal opportunities? Or a complete breakdown of the concepts of masculinity and femininity? These ideas partly depend on what we understand by "gender identity".
