gender vs female

gender and female both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gender	Yes	No	No	No
female	Yes	Yes	No	No

gender (noun)	female (noun)
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles	an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness	a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

gender (adjective)	female (adjective)
	being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
	for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
	characteristic of or peculiar to a woman