When considering gender and sex, a layman's idea of ​​these terms may be very different from a sociologist's. There is an important distinction: sex, in terms of being "male" or "female", corresponds only to differences in physical and biological characteristics – primarily anatomical differences. (There are also rare cases of "intersex" individuals, as Navarro's article, "When Gender Is Not a Given" points out.) Gender, on the other hand, is an often misinterpreted concept and often confused with sex. A non-sociologist might assume the following: “men act masculine and women act feminine; therefore, it must follow that gender is inherent in sex', but this is not necessarily the case. Biological factors (sex) and gender are correlated, but sex may or may not be caused by biological factors. Cherlin proposes four models of gender creation: the biosocial model, the socialization model, the interactionist model and the patriarchal model. Only the first model, the “biosocial” model, allows heredity and biological factors to play a role in determining gender. This model is based on the idea that biologically, men and women are predisposed to act a certain way "on average", but also on the fact that social factors play an important role in determining whether biological tendencies predominate. According to this theory, biological differences account for only about a quarter of the behavioral differences between the sexes, while social influences account for the remaining portion. Socialized traits are stronger than biological traits and can overpower biological traits, but biological tendencies remain important because it is difficult for socialized traits to overpower biological traits. A good example of this is described in Ke......in the middle of the article......doesn't exist if gender roles are perpetuated, but I don't think gender roles are as fragile as this model assumes. Finally, the patriarchal model seems the least convincing to me. There are two reasons for this: first, even in non-male dominated societal structures, such as socialist and communist societies, women have always assumed different gender roles. Second, I may be wrong in this perception, but even if this model is correct, patriarchy is a reinforcement of socialization and could be included in any biosocial, socialization, or interactionist model as a factor of socialization . Isolating this factor in a separate model seems misandrist. In summary, it is important to understand and combat all patterns. After all, people need to ask why gender roles differ and whether current gender roles are fair, in order to improve the current structure..