A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.
Socially-constructed identity of male or female.
Synonyms: Gender Identity Gender Gender Identities Identity, Gender
Term information
1991(1975); for GENDER use SEX 1991-2003
psychological; do not confuse with SEX CHARACTERISTICS (physiological); do not confuse with SEXUAL ORIENTATION see SEX BEHAVIOR: gender identity is knowing that one is male or female; sexual orientation is preferring heterosexual or homosexual behavior
1991; see IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY) 1976-1990; for GENDER see SEX 1991-2003