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Sex vs. gender: Is there a difference?

Sex vs. gender: Is there a difference?

When Simone de Beauvoir's landmark book, "The Second Sex" landed on shelves in 1949, sex differences were clearly defined: people born male were men, and people born female were women.

De Beauvoir's book challenged this assumption, writing, "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

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