property token a chosen word

gender

also called department

The gender of body an apparel item is cut and graded for (male, female, unisex) — half of the intended-wearer DEPARTMENT every garment is sold under, read together with age_group (a men's tee = male + adult, a boys' tee = male + kids). It is an IDENTITY discriminator, not a buyable facet: the same design in a men's cut and a women's cut is TWO distinct products with different fit/grading blocks and SKUs, never one product split across a buy-box department toggle. Grouped in the `identity` concern, so by the derived-axis rule it is NOT axis-eligible — a seller never offers a single product across genders as buy-box versions. Distinct from `fit` (close-to-body cut within one gender) and from `size_type` (petite/plus/maternity, a future grading facet).

Gender is answered with one word chosen from the genders list — the same word shared across every product that uses it.

It belongs to identity — who and what it is.

asked by the kinds that answer it

16 kinds answer it, each for a single value. The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.

answered with: ◇token — a token — a word chosen from a fixed vocabulary, shared and filterable across products.
value domain: Genders — the vocabulary its answers are drawn from.
concern: Identity — the facet of a product it belongs to.

asked by kinds that answer it

The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.

kind	how many
apparel	required · one
footwear	required · one