Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
by e12e on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:17PM
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Webster's define (the relevant meaning of) gender, as:
"b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
(...)
Origin: Middle English gendre, from Anglo-French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender — more at kin.
First use: 14th century"
So it would seem gender has started out as a term that groups "indivuduals that are of a kind" - not necessarily based on (biological) appearance, but just as much on behaviour/social grouping.
"b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
(...)
Origin: Middle English gendre, from Anglo-French genre, gendre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, gender — more at kin. First use: 14th century"
So it would seem gender has started out as a term that groups "indivuduals that are of a kind" - not necessarily based on (biological) appearance, but just as much on behaviour/social grouping.