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US
/ˈsɛksɪzəm/
]
[ UK /sˈɛksɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛksɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex
How To Use sexism In A Sentence
- And we have seen that sexism presents a greater difficulty than racism in this regard as well.
- Such people will inevitably bring their racism and sexism into the jury room.
- Back beyond even its immediate pre-modern period – what you might call The Andy Gray Years, the dolly bird years – football has always been a sweat-caked man-hole of a place, a realm where men have gone to mope and grizzle and rage and emote a kind of cheek-stinging eau de sexism. Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay
- Brown provides a particularly useful discussion of the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on gay and lesbian couples.
- The book is a collection of self-reflective essays that focus on the impact of personal and institutional sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism and ethnocentrism on the 12 women.
- Antisemitism belongs to this series, alongside other forms of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.
- Strategies to confront class inequality, sexism, racism and homophobia started to be discussed.
- When women do confront sexism, the glib reply is often that it is a joke.
- Of course we can contest this kind of sexism by arguing about the accuracy of particular scientific findings.
- But if it was difficult to keep racism on it, it was impossible to even breathe the word heterosexism.