Gender Representation

1. What is the difference between someone's 'sex' and their gender?

         Gender is the way you express and present yourself, like your interests, hobbies and the way you go about certain situations. And sex is showing if you are a male or female from birth.

2. 'Male and Female' can be a binary opposition within texts. In your opinion, which male or female is seen in a more positive light by society and why?
  
        I do think that males are seen in a more positive light due to many thinking men are the ones who provide the money wealth and security. Men have always been seen as the more dominant sex, even going back to the Victorian era, a lot was planned for the women; they didn't have much choice of what to do with their lives. For example they were seen as the house wife who cooks and cleans, which even to this day and age is still the way in which some men expect there wife to be. Where as women are presented as weak, relying on the males to provide for them which many will argue against because many females have superb jobs however many will still argue that women couldn't cope with the work that men do daily.

3. What do we mean by the term 'stereotype'
       
          A generalised idea of some thing