Represent Gender in Person Class

Question

With a Person class, how do I go about representing Gender, I want to create it as a class, much like the System.Drawing.Color setup, but I am unsure how to do this.

So I can do Gender = Gender.Male or Gender = Gender.Female etc.

Sorry if this makes no sense.

Answer 1

You could create an enum:

public enum Gender { Male, Female }

and then use it as below:

public class Person
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
    public Gender Gender { get; set; }
}

var person = new Person
{
    FirstName = "Foo",
    LastName = "Bar",
    Gender = Gender.Male
};