Simone De Beauvoir said in her book Second Sex “one is not born a woman, but one becomes one” (Beauvoir, 1973, p. 301). This shows that the Beauvoirs believed that gender was an aspect of identity that one discovers gradually. She says that gender is socially constructed and is also a particularly important element in the construction of our own identity. If gender is part of a person's identity, it can cause many problems in their social world because of the way we gender our daily activities. It's a generalization to say that "all women like to shop" or "all men like to watch sports", but as a society we view it as a social thing, and if you can't participate in these activities, you will tend to be marginalized in