1. GENDER

2. Cambridge Dictionary the physical and/or social condition of being male or female Does this test show the gender of the baby? Discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age or disability is not allowed.

3. Oxford Dictionary [mass noun] the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones) traditional concepts of gender [count noun] the members of one or other sex: differences between the genders are encouraged from an early age

4. Wikipedia GENDER is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and femenine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity. Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word "gender" to refer to anything but grammatical categories. However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender.