Home >> Socio Short Notes >> Doing Gender

Doing Gender

Candace West and Don Zimmerman introduced the concept ''doing gender'' in an article written in 1987. They were the first to articulate an ethnomethodological perspective on the creation and affirmation of gender inequality between males and females in western society.

They asserted that sex is founded on the socially agreed-upon biological criteria for initial assignment to sex category, but that classification typically has little to do with the everyday and commonsense sex categorization engaged in by members of a social group.