What is the difference between sex and gender?

a. Sex is the accumulation of all biological differences between individuals

b. Sex is the combination of cultural meanings assigned to the biological differentiation between the genders.
c. Gender is the combination of cultural meaning assigned to the biological differentiation between the sexes.
d. There is no difference between these concepts.


c

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