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Dictionary of Vocational Psychology

Gender

While sex refers to biological fetures of maleness and femaleness, gender refers to socially and culturally imparted features of masculinity and femininity. Gender or sex-role socialization probably leads to a large proportion of differences in vocational behavior between the sexes.

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