Project for Women's Literature

1. By Dustin Hickok

2. So, the ultimate question is, what’s the difference between gender and sex?
There is no difference, right? Wrong. A good example for this would be a
pregnant woman. Her friend walks up to her and says, “Congratulations!
respond with, “Oh, thank you! It’s a girl/boy.” The truth of the matter is, you
What gender is your baby? Is it a boy or a girl?” Now most people would
don’t know what gender the baby is, but you do know the sex.

3. When a woman is pregnant,
she can get an ultrasound to
see her child forming. It takes
approximately 12 weeks for
the sex of the baby to be
identified through ultrasound.
It is around this time when the
baby’s genitilia is formed.
When the baby is born, the
parents should already know
what sex the baby is.
Based off this information from
the ultrascan, the gender of
your baby is obvious, right?
Wrong. Gender is completely
different.

4. Just because someone is
born with a certain body part,
does not mean that it defines
them. Your gender is
defined by how you view
yourself. Regardless of what
sexual organs you are born
with, what gender you identify
with is your choice.

5. I asked this question on Ask.com and people’s
responses were shocking. Almost all of the
people had no idea what the true issue is.

8. Finally, ONE person got the answer right.

9. It sad to see this, but it proves how little people know about gender and sex. I
chose to categorize it as Parenting & Family because I thought that people
from this category would be more likely to know the correct answer. The truth of
the matter is, it doesn’t matter what category the people are from. Society has
not made it clear enough to people that there is a difference between gender
and sex. Based off of these responses, 1/11 people know the difference. Now
let’s go large scale. Let’s say 5,265,378 people are all taken into account.
Multiply the equation by this number and we get 5,265,378/57,919,158. That
means that approximately 5,000,000 out of 58,000,000 people know the
difference between gender and sex. This is shocking to say the least. Of course
these statistics aren’t accurate due to the meager amount of responses, but it
still gets the point across.

10. http://mic.com/articles/101726/sweden-is-
taking-a-mainstream-approach-to-gender-
equality-the-us-would-never-consider

11. It’s sad to see how little people know about
gender and sex. But, through hard work and
generations, I believe that America can
change and that we can make a difference.