Definition(s)
The socially constructed attributes, roles, activities, responsibilities and needs predominantly connected to being male or female in given societies or communities at a given time.
Source(s)
Derived by EMN from the list of Concepts and Definitions on the UN Women website.
Translations
- BG: социален пол
- CS: gender
- DE: soziales Geschlecht
- EL: φύλο
- EN: gender
- ES: género
- ET: sugu
- FI: sukupuoli
- FR: genre
- GA: inscne
- HU: nemi szerep
- IT: genere
- LT: lytis
- LV: dzimums
- MT: Ġeneru / Ġens / Sess
- NL: gender
- PL: gender, płeć społeczno-kulturowa
- PT: género
- RO: gen
- SK: rod
- SL: spol
- SV: genus
- NO: kjønn
- KA: გენდერი
- UK: гендер
Synonym(s)
- gender identity
Related Term(s)
- LGB(TI)
- sex
- sexual orientation
- social group
Note(s)
1. People fleeing human rights violations and persecution due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity may qualify for international protection . Directive 2011/95/EU (Recast Qualification Directive) refers in Art. 10 'Reasons for persecution' to gender related aspects, including gender identity, which shall be given due consideration for the purposes of determining membership of a particular social group or identifying a characteristic of such a group.
2. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) use the following definition of 'gender identity': '"Each person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body - which may involve, if chosen, modification of bodily appearance or function by medical, surgical or other means - and other expressions of gender, including of dress, speech and mannerism (see ICJ, Yogyakarta Principles - Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, ('Yogyakarta Principles'), March 2007)