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gender and divorce  

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  • Whether the roles, stereotypes, and expectations of men and women in a society are traditional or nontraditional, egalitarian or specialized, the simple fact is that gender matters. More than a term for a person's biological sex, the word gender refers to the social construction of what it means to be a man or a woman in a particular society. [Source: Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia; Gender and Divorce]

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