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But how do you define "gender"? Light defines the genre, Keller and Calhoun (1991) as "all non-biological characteristics assigned to men and women," ie, assigning attributes, roles and beliefs, which are not on the person's sex, but associated with the person for what society thinks and believes he is born. The development of the concept of Gender is a qualitative leap, ie, understanding the roles and tasks associated with women or men are due to society and not to biological differences, has led to analyze the roles and these tasks with other different perspective. Angeles Alvarez (2007) states: "From this perspective the meaning of being a man or a woman, the contents of the relations between men and women, the duties and prohibitions for women as women and men being men, are understood as cultural patterns that, as cultural and natural, are subject to change. "The same author says that the belief system is the key factor in the appearance of sexism, which discriminates against women and legitimizes the use of violence. The beliefs associated with gender are essential to bring about sexist attitudes as education is essential to convey this belief system that determines the behavior, you must pay close attention to the education of future generations to prevent or to eliminate them and eradicated if they are already assimilated. If you want to eradicate violence against women must be rooted sexism and the sexism could be eliminated by removing sexist attitudes in education, if we eliminate the pejorative concept of gender.