?Margaret L. Andersen explains in her essay, “The Social Control of Gender”, that gender is a social construction of society. Andersen defines “gender social construction” as the expectations associated with being a girl or being a boy. She argues that everything in our society is gender stereotyped. For instance, diapers for boys are generally blue while girls diapers are pink simply because society assumes that boys like the blue color while girls like the pink one. In other words, men and women are expected to behave in a specific way and have specific preferences that conform to the view that society have of them. Andersen points out the difference between sex, which is a biological identity, and gender, which is a social concept of social patterns associated with women and men. Andersen also observes that gender concepts and expectations change from a culture to another. For instance, in traditional Navaho society, some people are defined as a third gender and consider themselves to be neither men nor women. That definitely proves that gender is a social construction. If it was not the case, gender wouldn’t change from one culture to another. Andersen adds that gender is not only constructed by family and relationships but also by social institutions such as government and schools. These institutions are highly influenced by genders in their decision-making and distribution of power. For instance, in Europe, all the soccer coaches are men because women are not expected to coach or even to like soccer. A few decades ago, women couldn’t join the American army because society believed that women weren’t physically and psychology strong enough to be in the army. Michael S. Kimmel explains in his essay, “Guyland”, that some men go through a period of transition from adolescence to adulthood, called “Guyland”. Kimmel doesn’t see Guyland as a nasty place full of criminals and predators but rather as a place where men are caught between the dependency of boyhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. Kimmel explains that, in “Guyland”, guys are expected to be tough and strong and thus, they rarely show their feeling or confide in someone. Kimmel adds that parents and friends should try to understand them and not judge them in order to help them go