Gender, School Society childhood and growing up

If you say that someone is grown up, you mean that they are an adult or that they behave in a responsible way: He seems very grown up for a ten-year-old

It refers to the way society encourages and teaches the two sexes to behave in different through socialization. 'Gender' and the hierarchical power relations between women and men based on this are socially constructed, and not derived directly from biology.