Gender Discrimination Gender discrimination is unfair or unequal treatment directed at a person because of his or her sex or gender. It results most typically from the stereotypical association of certain character traits with women and men, the...

Sexism has been defmed (Humm 1989) as ‘a social relationship in which males denigrate females’. Like racism, on which the word is based, it is a form of prejudice. Sexism is deeply engrained, and hard to get at. It often requires a real...

Sexism, after racism, was one of the first of the negative ‘-isms’ to come into the public consciousness as a result of the general rethinking of roles, reactions and obligations in modern society that started in the 1960s (see also...

The unfavourable treatment of one sex in matters of wages, recruitment or promotion. In the USA federal legislation first addressed itself to this in civil rights legislation of the 1960s; in the UK under the EQUAL PAY ACT 1970 and SEX DISCRIMINATION...

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Despite impressive gains for women over the last 25 years, medicine has helped keep sexism alive and well. This doesn't usually come in the form of blatant discrimination. Women aren't forced to sit in the back of waiting rooms. They aren't barred from the...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-13-1994 SEXISM IN THE SERVICE Date: 03-13-1994, Sunday Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK Edition: All Editions -- Sunday THE DEPRAVED behavior at the Navy's 1991 Tailhook Convention led all the military services to adopt written rules for handling...

Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the national debate over what is and isn't acceptable to say in public.Clinton's camp has perceived sexism...

With all the women in television news on both sides of the camera, you would think sexism was an issue relegated to the 20th century.Yet recently a CBS News executive, herself a pioneer for women in the industry, said she believed that Katie Couric was...