HAS THE 'CONSTRUCT OF GENDER' BEEN MORE HARMFUL OR MORE BENEFICIAL TO HUMANITY THROUGHOUT HISTORY? Putting an end to toxic gender norms Edmund Burke once said and I quote “Those who don’t know the history are destined to repeat it” Gender-based norms and assumptions have been repeating regularly in the same way at different intervals of time throughout history. In order to understand and form a consensus regarding the impact that this Social Constructionism of Gender has had, we primarily need to review the history of ‘Construct of gender’. For the record, Gender, by definition is the state of being male, female or other with reference to social and cultural norms. The construct of gender was done to characterize and differentiate between different people on the basis of their biology as well as according to expected social and cultural norms. Throughout history, the gender construct has been an unjust and unequal base forming a binary which has g...