From the time of our birth, the social category of gender influences our identity.  The term "sex" refers to a person's biology, i.e. one's chromosomes, presence or absence of testes or ovaries, genitalia, hormones and secondary sex characteristics, such as hair, breast development, and physique. "Gender" refers to social characteristics associated with biological sex. In sex and gender studies, the distinction between the terms "sex" and "gender" emphasizes the socially constructed nature of gender characteristics. Gender determines our identity in the roles we will play within society [Loux, 1997]. .

             Basically our society has defined gender as attributed to "masculine" or "feminine". This can be a little insufficient since sociologists question whether or not, are all males masculine and all females feminine? In the social sense the infant is not male or female but the continuance nurturing forces us to acquire dominant characteristics of male and female. Boys are told to be assertive, strong and to be less emotional. Girls on the other hand are expected to be submissive, soft and emotional. .

             [Kokopeli and Lakey, 1980] blame patriarchy, the rule of the male head of the family as the cause of domination of women by men. Patriarchy assigns a list of human characteristics according to gender. The unequal opportunities given to females, indoctrination of their role give the male child a feeling of superiority and strength and behavior. The personality theories often declare attitudes such as intuition, Introversion, feeling and perceiving as soft and feminine [MBTI, 2005]. The theories however consider both man and women being capable of possessing these attributes or opposites extroversion, sensing, thinking and judging both in men and women. This has always been true both men and women are capable of possessing these attributes. The conditioning of men and women by the society has made them play their expected roles.