 Haslanger’s account of the social construction of gender is an answer to the question what type of thing genders are, how they are created and maintained. According to her account, genders are social statuses within a hierarchical social structure and not, for example, biological categories. On her view, when offering a theory of something, be it gender or something else, we always have to ask what we want the theory for: what questions is the theory supposed to answer, what bring to light? And a theory is always a child of its maker, and their time and place, and is offered in the context of the conversations and political and activist struggles that are taking place then. For instance, Haslanger first articulated her theory of gender in 1995–1996, and wanted to give an account that didn’t define women in terms of some intrinsic (biological or psychological) trait, but rather, in the materialist feminist tradition, considered women to be a social class. The aim was to highlight certain structural injustices we are all party to, but not to give an account of gender to settle all questions regarding gender. A structural account differs in aims from one that has as its central target to capture people’s own conceptions of their experience. For critical engagements with Haslanger’s theory, it is helpful to begin with Mills 2014, Jones 2014, Haslanger 2014, Mikkola 2016a, and Bettcher 2012.