Gender differences in the prevalence of many personality disorders (i.e., borderline for women, antisocial for men) may be due to <em>established gender</em> <em>roles</em>. Nowadays there is a growing awareness of the importance of gender in medical treatment and research. There are traits in personality disorders that can be associated with femininity/masculinity. It means that if you are born a woman you may be more predestined to develop the type of personality disorders that manifest themselves in women ( borderline, dependent ) versus being born a man and show traits of disorders associated to the masculine gender (antisocial, narcissistic).
