Sex refers to the characteristic that defines us as male or femal. Sex is simple, sex is empirical and objective. Gender is not. Gender doesn’t stop at biological characteristics but
rather digs deeper into or society and our context. Gender defines what makes a
woman, a ‘real woman’ and a man a ‘real man’.
 
            Gender can be difined as the set of attributes that define the sexes and the social
relationship between the sexes. Thus, in order to fully understand gender, one
must understand the socio-cultural context in which one is speaking.
 
A good example of this is the expected inter-gender relationships in western 20^th century when it comes to starting an emotional relationship. A man in this case is expected to
‘ask a girl out’, to as they say, “make the first move”. While this action
seems like a bold and confident decision for a man, it seems odd and
unconventional if it were made by a woman. A man is usually expected to pay for
the check while a girl is expected to be amused by the man, find him interesting
and, ‘stroke his ego’.

 
The images clearly depict the idea of the female gender through the 20^th century. Under that idea a woman was only a woman based on a man, whether she was single or not (had a
man or didn’t), whether a man found her attractive or not whereas a man was a
single autonomous entity. These differences have become palpable through media,
in which the female character exists only in relation to the male characters
(whether or not they’re on screen) while the male character can drive the plot.
This style however is slowly being phased out; evidence of this can be see in
the canon of T.V., which can be said is a more rapid reacting genre. Examples
of this are popular sitcoms such as How I met your mother, Modern Family and .
In these examples the female characters are autonomous entities with their own
story times and every once in a while the male characters seem to revolve
around them.