gendered

1 of 2

past tense and past participle of gender entry 2, gender entry 3

gendered

2 of 2

adjective

gen·​dered ˈjen-dərd 

1

a

: reflecting or involving gender differences or stereotypical gender roles

… evidence that women used their teeth as basketry or weaving tools suggested a gendered division of labor in Bronze Age … culture.

—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi

However, when discussing the intricacies of married life, medieval Europeans often spoke quite specifically about the role of wife and mother as a form of work. … [W]omen were then expected to perform domestic labor that was expressly gendered and acknowledged as backbreaking.

—Eleanor Janega

Through their demeanor, from the way they wear their clothes, stand, move, and even hold their schoolbooks, they are continually constructing who they are as gendered beings.

—Heather A. Blair

Gendered dating tropes are entirely absent, with the [video] game leaning instead on the inherent awkwardness of early romantic relationships for both comedic and sweet moments.

—Eric Ravenscraft

The good news is that you don't need to rely on tired gendered stereotypes to find the best gifts online that your loved ones will thank you for. No more wading through guides where it seems like all men do is grill and shave, and all women do is spritz perfume.

—Sage Anderson

For example, words such as competitive, dominant or leader are associated with male stereotypes, while words such as support, understand and interpersonal are associated with female stereotypes. Including gendered words in job advertisements could make the position seem less appealing to a certain gender, thereby limiting the applicant pool for these jobs.

—Danielle Gaucher et al.

b

: reflecting the experiences, prejudices, or tendencies of one sex more than the other

Since any reading of a student essay is also a rewriting, we need to work harder to sort out the role our own biases and unconscious associations play in our interpretation of and response to any heavily gendered narrative.

—Lad Tobin

2

a

: specifying a sex or sexes

One of the things that we did at the request of our team was to remove all gendered language from our website—being really intentional and creating an inclusive space.

—Joanna Griffiths, quoted in The Toronto Star

b

: using grammatical gender (see gender entry 1 sense 1a)

… gendered languages like Spanish (where nouns and pronouns have a gender), genderless languages such as Mandarin (where nouns and pronouns don't have a marked gender), and natural gender languages like English (with gendered pronouns and genderless nouns).

—Nayantara Dutta

compare genderless

Examples of gendered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Rose Byrne, Joel Edgerton, Tessa Thompson, Keke Palmer, and Kirsten Dunst are all nominated in the non-gendered acting categories. —Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025

There are too many problems here to take that particular critique to a gendered place, but light an academic match, and the barn burns itself. —Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Nov. 2025

Franco’s gendered violence My study explores the testimonies of women imprisoned during the civil war or subsequent decades, all of whom endured suffering related to their motherhood. —Zaya Rustamova, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025

Entire families joined this seasonal migration, living in temporary forest settlements where every member of the household performed a specific, gendered role in the collection, processing, and sale of tonka beans to their commercial center in northern Venezuela’s Ciudad Bolivar. —JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

gender entry 1 + -ed entry 1

First Known Use

Adjective

1719, in the meaning defined at sense 2b

Rhymes for gendered

• engendered
• surrendered
• rendered
• tendered