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prosequence,
I'm not sure if your question is whether sex is a social construct or if sex gives us useful information.
If the former, then the answer is that sex is not a social construct as it is based on physiological differences that hold across all cultures. That is, all cultures differentiate between whether a man has a penis and a woman does not.
Gender, however, is a social construct. Numerous cultures actually have more than two genders and what we consider man's work or women's work differs by culture, as well (although 'women's work,' whatever it might be in a given culture, is almost universally given lower status than 'man's work').
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