Compose a 5-page paper in response to the following prompt:
Explain how gender is a socio-cultural construction; answer, what can be learned from studying gender cross-culturally? Use examples from the assigned readings to support your claims.

Given the length of the paper, try to focus your pape on one or maybe two aspects of gender. For example, challenging gender universals, gender socialization, gendered power dynamics and agency, intersectionality, sexuality, and so forth.