This article examines two approaches to gender and to marital counseling and therapy: (a) one approach focuses on internalized gender differences, and (b) the otherfocuses on structural power differentials. Both views are integrated within a model that identifles gender as an interpbersonal process and applies family systems theory as aframework for examining how the meaning and experience of gender is socially constructed through marital interaction. Case examples emphasizing implications for counseling and therapy are addressed.
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