whereas ‘sex’ is defined as referring to biological differences between men and women, while ‘gender’ refers to socially constructed identities, roles and attributes for women and men and the social and cultural meaning that society gives to those biological differences, and whereas it is gender that results in hierarchical relationships between women and men and in the distribution and assignment of power and rights favouring men and disadvantaging women;
ker je biološki spol je opredeljen z biološkimi razlikami med moškimi in ženskami, družbeni pa se nanaša na družbeno oblikovane identitete, vloge in značilnosti žensk in moških ter na družbeni in kulturni pomen, ki ga v družbi pripisujemo biološkim razlikam, in ker prav družbeni spol vpliva na hierarhična razmerja med ženskami in moškimi ter na porazdelitev in pripisovanje moči in pravic, ko so moški v boljšem, ženske pa v slabšem položaju;