Gender. A quick dive

This essay aims to take a "quick dive" into the notion of gender and the studies that have developed in parallel, as clearly and concisely as possible. This concept was created to refer to the social and cultural burden that is added to sex and that determines the behavioural norms of men and women. Thus, sex would be a physical trait that we cannot modify without radically altering our bodies, while gender would change according to the times and cultures, which attribute different values to each sex. Feminism has shown how women, in general, bear the brunt of this distinction, which contributes to the so-called male domination that affects all areas of individual and collective life. In recent decades, however, gender studies have complicated this division between sex and gender. In addition, such current phenomena as the claim of non-binarism or gender transitions blur the boundaries between femininity and masculinity, or between men and women, and lead us to wonder whether we are witnessing the end of gender or even of humanity as we know it.