Gender essentialism is the belief that a person, thing, or particular trait is inherently and permanently male and masculine or female and feminine. In other words, it considers biological sex the ...

As a strategy for achieving gender equality, gender mainstreaming involves a process of incremental change in policies, strategies and activities. The long term objective is that attention to gender ...

In the United States, gender has been considered a relatively ordinary term. We are asked to check a box on a form, and most of us do so without giving it too much thought. But some of us don’t like ...

Tom Sapsford is affiliated with the Lambda Classical Caucus. A few weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders restricting the rights of trans workers in the federal ...

Why is this idea flawed? Gender essentialism fails to acknowledge the scientifically recognized fact that sex and gender are different and both exist on a spectrum. The spectrum of sex involves a wide ...