in a number of areas of critical interest for policy makers gender data and indicators are still insufficient or lack comparability across countries further effort should be promoted to develop sound genderbased measures in the fields of labour statistics entrepreneurship and unpaid work intrahousehold allocation of resources and genderbased violence the terms sex and gender are often used synonymously although in gender research the two concepts have different meanings sex refers to the biologically recognised differences between men and women eg chromosomes internal and external sex organs hormonal makeup and other secondary sex characteristics in contrast the term gender refers to to the economic social and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being male or female unfpa gender is constantly created and recreated out of human interaction out of social life and is the texture and order of that social life lorber