Ideas in this flowchart

• Gender is culturally based and varies across societies.
• Gender varies in many subtle ways across the diverse cultures of the world.
• Gender has been shaped over many years by cultural forces.
• Social norms influence gender.
• Politics influences gender.
• Religion influences gender.
• Philosophy influences gender.
• Language influences gender.
• Tradition influences gender.
• Other cultural forces also influence gender.
• Gender identity is a person’s internal sense of their own maleness or femaleness.
• Every society has a somewhat different view of what it means to be male or masculine.
• Every society has a somewhat different view of what it means to be female or feminine.