Questions tagged [gender]

Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them.

Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity.

Please use this tag to identify questions which are of the "male vs. female" type, e.g. "Are men more aggressive than women?", for the psychological and social aspects of sex and sexual activities in general.

See also http://meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/652/96.

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Are 100 million sharks culled per year for safety reasons?

Are 100 million sharks culled per year for safety reasons? Example claim A woman has a 1 in 262,365 chance of being killed by a shark in her lifetime. In that very same lifetime she has a 1 in 6 chance of being raped. 100 million sharks are…
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