| Gender comes from the Latin word "genus": The behavior of a person in ociety
and the gender as a social gender determines how the person is perceived in the
society. This is the role behavior, which determines the relationship
with other persons: Friends, colleagues in the office, classmates in study
places, parents, casual passers etc.
In psychology, the concept of "gender" is used in a
broader sense, implied any psychological or behavioral properties,
associating with masculinity and femininity and presumably
distinguishing men from women (earlier they were called gender
properties or differences).
The word "gender" was adopted from grammar and was also introduced
into the behavioral sciences by John Money whom in 1955 while
studying feminine and masculine qualities and roles in the society. Later
on, it was widely used by sociologists, lawyers and American
feminists. In any case, it always was and would remain multi-valued.
In social sciences and especially in feminism "gender" obtained a
narrower sense, designating socially
determined roles, the identity and scope of activity of men and women,
depending not on biological distinctions but on the social
organization of society. The social inequality of men and women occupies
the main point of the discussion in gender studies.
The word "Gender" in the English language designates the distinguishable
masculinity or femininity of a person. Dividing into male and female in society is similar to division into males and females in biology.
In countries where documentary evidence of identity is developed,
social gender usually matches with the biological gender, indicated in the documents,
i.e. with gender in a passport excluding the transgender cases.
In a wider sense, social gender does not always match the biological gender of an individual, with his or her
Upbringing, gender or with his/her gender indicated in a passport.
Usually in a society it is possible to distinguish two genders - male
and female. However, the set of genders is much wider; communities with
four or more genders exist. Social levels of witches, for example, do
not match with the (social) gender of usual females and according to the social
role, are closer to the male (social) gender.
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A number of studies of the recent years has shown that when it comes to love, the old rule "opposites attract" may not be so true. Close examination of faces of thousands of couples has shown many similarities and 
