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DEFINITION OF GENDER

Due to confusion and bracketed text, the Secretariat provided the following definition of gender, which is based on the discussion of the gender approach found in the 1994 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (A/49/378): Gender refers to the relationships between women and men based on socially-defined roles that are assigned to one sex or the other.