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For the purposes of this framework, gender is defined as the socially constructed set of roles, rights, responsibilities, entitlements, and behaviors associated with being a woman or a man in society.
The social definitions of what it means to be masculine or feminine, and negative consequences for not adhering to those expectations, vary among cultures, change over time, and often intersect with other factors such as age, class, disability, ethnicity, race, religion, and sexual orientation (U.S. Gender-Based Violence Strategy, 2016).