sexism

[ US /ˈsɛksɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛksɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex
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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.
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