No, gender is a grammatical formality. Sex (male and female) is a physical reality.
"During the 1970s, it was believed that gender is a social construct and that gender differences could be eliminated via consciousness-raising. But it turns out gender is not a social construct. Consciousness-raising doesn’t turn boys into sensitively poetic pacifists. It just turns many of them into high school and college dropouts who hate reading."
The article recommends Hemingway for men. Actually, I always found Hemingway pretentious and boring.