Gender can be:
1-Traits
2-Role
3- Variable
4- Accomplishment
-understood – to be understood by others (ie baby clothes)
-participate – (take boy to baseball game)
-Navigate – move through a gendered world
-be – show we are successful at meeting expectations
We do gender because the world is gendered.
5- Social institution
-organize bodies (marked as belonging to one group or another) -> Experiences (go along a path with a certain set of experiences, appropriate for male group or female group) -> groups designed for different tasks (learn traits from experiences that we take through life) -> Groups of tasks (things for people with different skills. Men: cops, firefighters/Women: nurses, teachers) -> Institutions (institution of military, of education). These institutions are gendered and gendering.
Structured differentiation -> Stratification