Is there a Peace Treaty in the War of the Sexes?

Gender is not so much a set of traits residing with individuals, but as something people do in their social interactions. While sex categorization depends on the commonsense categorization (in the sense that people are categorized into either male or female) sex categories have certain traits that contradict that categorization. Gender involves other set of recipes for activities that must be modified according to different situation. The key concept is that of accountability. That, as society is structured according to sex categorization of male/female, people come to be required to be accountable for every action they perform to be appropriate to one's sex category. In this sense, gender is fundamental in all aspects of social relationships in the sense that one cannot avoid doing gender if one wants to make actions accountable. Gender is so fundamental that any type of social interactions and activities are potentially subject to "doing gender" (that is, making one's actions accountable in terms of their appropriateness to sex category). By doing gender, it in turn has the effect of reinforcing the notion of "essential difference between females and males". That is, these gendered activities are not so much expressions of natural gender differences but the very act of the production of these differences. In addition, gender is neither a role nor a display, because while roles are situated identities, gender is a master identity that cut across situations; to characterize gender as display is also misleading, as display implies something not so fundamental and limited aspect of human interaction.