The importance of understanding the complexities of sex, sexuality, and gender opens up real constructive and deductive dialogue about some of society's most imperative identifiers. By forming a dialectic on these topics we expand the human experience and arrive at more conclusive truths about human behavior rather than relying on stereotypes and observations based on a single factor. Research informs us that people's behaviors depend on time, place, context and situation and not on differences in sex, gender and sexuality (Spade, Valentine 5). Take for example the rapid increase in women in the workforce during World War II. The men were off fighting the war, so the women, who were all supposed to be housewives, were ideally and advantageously welcomed into the factories to keep the industry running. It made working women truly visible for the first time in America, but when the war subsided, men returned to work and women returned to the home. This shows that women can be more than just stereotypical housewives and nurturers. The context of everything matters, so when we erase the reality of context, time, and place we deny ourselves all the pieces of the puzzle to see the necessary whole. Our generalized ideas of gender derive from a cultural ideology of femininity and masculinity. Being a woman does not inherently translate into femininity: it is a social construction socialized into young, growing girls who assimilate the culture around them through taking on roles (Mead). The same goes for masculinity. These ideologies of femininity and masculinity arise from the desire to categorize – or rather organize society. Inadvertently, organizing these compartmentalized parts became beneficial for creating hierarchies. In this case, a hierarchy constructed from… middle of paper… is a reality, but reviewing every other drug would be too big an undertaking for any group of scientists. This default bias that male people represent all of society puts everyone in potential danger because it expresses a singular embodiment of society, denying diversity not only in gender, but in race, sexual orientation, class status, and more, based only on hierarchy. If this type of neglect continues in biological science fields, socialized gender differences will tend to guide our research more than actual biological sex differences. Challenging normative social beliefs about gender, sex, and sexuality allows society to look at the history of our constructed social position. Otherwise, we experience cultural lag, which threatens to diminish the longevity and vitality of society as a whole, for both males and females..