Sexism

thumb|alt=A woman under arrest walking between two policemen |Suffragette [[Dora Thewlis was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in 1914 for campaigning for women's right to vote.]] Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to gender roles and stereotypes, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence. Discrimination in this context is defined as discriminatio

thumb|Swetnam the Woman-Hater, printed in 1620. The work is credited with originating the English term misogynist.

international bill of rights for women

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Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality and heterosexual relationships. According to Elizabeth Cramer, it can include the belief that all people are or should be heterosexual and that heterosexual relationships are the only norm and therefore superior.

metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that keeps a given group from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy

attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities

test if a fictional work features at least two women who discuss something other than a man

bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists

Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning (for a man) to explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner without regard to her own expertise.

idea and situation that women and men are not treated as equal

gender gap problem in Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects

fear, hatred or discrimination against lesbians

thumb|An example of "manspreading" on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line

separation of people according to their sex

thumb|right|alt=A topless woman with dark hair and sunglasses, her left hand is holding protest sign with the text "Stand up" in capital red letter and "for topless equal rights" in smaller green capital letters.|A woman protesting for the right to go topless anywhere a man could. Venice Beach, California, 2011 Topfreedom is a cultural and political movement seeking changes in laws to allow women to be topless in public places where men are permitted to be barechested, as a form of gender equality. Specifically, the movement seeks the repeal or overturning of laws which restrict a woman's righ

pregnancy termination based on predicted sex

unofficial maritime code of conduct

concept of labor rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay

phenomenon of extensive media coverage of missing white women

Gendercide or Gender-related killing is the systematic murder of members of a specific gender. The term is related to the general concepts of assault and murder against victims due to their gender, with violence against men and women being problems which are dealt with by human rights organizations. The term 'gendercide' is similar to the term 'genocide' because gendercide is a form of mass murder; however, the perpetrators of gendercide solely target members of one gender. Politico-military frameworks have historically inflicted militant-governed divisions between femicide and androcide; gend

passenger railway cars intended for women only

2017–2018 trend of sexual misconduct allegations

concept used to describe social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are made available to men solely on the basis of their sex

thumb|1920 Arthur Rackham illustration for the Irish fairytale The Hag of the Mill. "Now the Hag of the Mill was a bony, thin pole of a hag with odd feet."

checklist to help journalists avoid gender bias

women rights

psychological and sociological phenomenon

Cisgenderism (also called cissexism, genderism, or gender binarism) is the ideology that there are only two genders, and that one's gender should conform to one's assigned sex at birth. This normative belief stigmatizes gender nonconformity, and leads to discrimination against transgender and intersex people. It is pervasive and systematic in Western culture, and reflected in the cultural and legal practices across numerous countries.

women involved in the film industry

ban on the employment of married women

bias on a person or collective due to its gender

essay by Fredric Wertham

overview of rape

discriminative acts committed against men

thumb|Anti-hijab installation at a park in Malmö. Hijabophobia is a type of religious and cultural discrimination against Muslim women who wear the hijab. The discrimination has had manifestations in public, working and educational places.

metaphor

socioeconomic discrimination based on gender

description of sexism as consisting of hostile sexism (overtly negative gender stereotypes) and benevolent sexism (gender stereotypes that appear subjectively positive but are actually damaging)

The word is a type of sexual fetish in hentai wherein a protagonist is subject to sexual, physical, or psychological abuse from an offender. The term is mostly used in connection to Japanese culture, although the themes of misogyny, sadomasochism, compassion, exoticism, and extreme erotica is seen in many other cultures.

sexist behaviors by women towards themselves

fear, dislike, or hatred of gay men or male homosexuality

distribution of workers across and within occupations

Coverture was a legal doctrine in English common law under which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband. Upon marriage, she had no independent legal existence of her own, in keeping with society's expectation that her husband was to provide for and protect her. Under coverture a woman became a , whose legal rights and obligations were mostly subsumed by those of her husband. An unmarried woman, or , retained the right to own property and make contracts in her own name.

Japanese societal customs barring women from sacred places

prejudiced behavior or discrimination based on sex or gender that is experienced by people who play and create video games

discrimination based on a person's sex that occurs in a place of employment

act of treating some differently because of their sex

the enforcement of normative gender expressions

Political and cultural movement dedicated to promoting women in music and challenging sexism in the music community.

face-covering veil in Egyptian society

Neurosexism is an alleged bias in the neuroscience of sex differences towards reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes. The term was coined by feminist scholar Cordelia Fine in a 2008 article and popularised by her 2010 book Delusions of Gender. The concept is now widely used by critics of the neuroscience of sex differences in neuroscience, neuroethics and philosophy.

objections to media portrayal of women

psychological misogyny and abuse

relationship between mass media and gender

gendered separation of public and private spheres