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Gender Identity

Introduction

Gender identity is considered as an individual's perception of his/herself as female or male (or seldom, if ever, as both or neither). This perception is intimately associated with the idea regarding gender role, that could be looked as the out-ward manifestations of individual's persona that indicate the gender recognition (Chase, 2007, pp. 82). Gender identity, in the majority of cases, is self-identity that an individual perceives to be, as a consequence of a combination of extrinsic and natural or environmental conditions; gender role, however, is manifested within society by noticeable components for example behavior and ...