gender is culturally constructed; the word may have various meanings in various cultures; generally it is the statea state is an independent political entity with a centralized government and set geographical boundaries where control is exercised by police or military; a state claims the right to defend itself from both internal and external threats by use of force; a state may have many villages and cities and/or millions or billions of people as in China and India of being male or female (biologically), but is more often used with reference to social and cultural differences, which may or may not be biological
gender is used in various languages such as Spanish, where nouns are preceded with an article such as la (feminine) or lo (masculine) – many languages have “gendered” speech, including Latin, Greek, Russian, and German, but grammatical gender is very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex