Sexism
Sexism is generally defined as discrimination based on the gender of a person—looking down on people because they are male or female. Sexism may also include stereotyped roles for men and women. International laws, such as Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women or Yogyakarta Principles demand to abolish any kind of sexism. Sexism could affect a person attending a party, getting a job, joining a game, trying to get a promotion, being selected and so on. The women's rights and men's rights movements both say they fight sexism.
Sexism is often discrimination against women due to the history of sexism in the western world.
Hatred of women is called misogyny. Hatred of men is called misandry. Reverse sexism is misandristically being biased because you think you're disadvantaged.[1]
Pauline M. Leet made the word "sexism" on November 18, 1965.
Education
World literacy is lower for females than for males. On 9 October 2012 the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head on her schoolbus by Taliban gunmen because she did activism for girls' rights to education.[2]
Sexism Media
Suffragette organizations campaigned for women's right to vote.
"The Hammer of Witches which destroyeth Witches and their heresy as with a two-edged sword". Title page of the seventh Cologne edition of the Malleus Maleficarum, 1520, from the University of Sydney Library.
Anti-dowry poster in Bangalore, India. According to Amnesty International, "[T]he ongoing reality of dowry-related violence is an example of what can happen when women are treated as property."
Gender pay gap in average gross hourly earnings according to Eurostat 2014
Two girls examining a bulletin board posted on a fence. An advertisement painted above them asks "Are You a Woman?"
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References
- ↑ Mahowald, Mary B. "Reverse sexism? Not to worry." The American Journal of Bioethics 1.1 (2001): 15-16.
- ↑ Mishal Husain (7 October 2013). "Malala: The girl who was shot for going to school". BBC News Magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
