From "Doing Gender" by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman
The authors attempt to reconceptualize gender as a routine and recurring phenomenon grounded in social practices of everyday life. Their perspective involves analyzing gender as a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional, and micropolitical activities that cast pursuits as manifestations of masculine and feminine "natures."
-Which of the following does not constitute a social practice within the authors' formulation?
A) Segregation at work
B) Sports participation
C) Distribution of power
D) Average height and size differences across sex groups.

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Average height and size differences across sex groups are not social practices, but rather biological differences between sexes. Therefore, they do not fit within the authors' definition of gender as a routine and recurring phenomenon grounded in social practices.