Examiens how gender-based research has responded to the proliferation of identity categories which have emerged in the past decade, using two articles as examples.
In comparing two articles which attempt to account for “sex discrimination” (Glick et al., 1988) and “gender recognition” (Rabow and Wolfinger, 1997), I will be focusing here on the ways psychological research has developed its own conceptual operationalization for identity categories. In other words, how is the category of gender being represented in-relation to sex?