“[…] to ‘do’ Gender […] is to engage in behavior at the risk of gender assessment.“ (West/Zimmerman 1991, 23). It is a situational interaction process, in which gender is performed and perceived. Therefore gender is not static.

_{West, C./Zimmerman, D. H. (1991): Doing Gender, in: Lorber, J./Farrell, S. A. (Eds.): The Social Construction of Gender, Newbury Park, 13-37}