sexism

English

Etymology

From sex +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksɪzm̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sexism (countable and uncountable, plural sexisms)

1. The belief that people of one sex or gender are inherently superior to others.

   The notion that either gender is superior is sexism.

2. Discrimination or different treatment based on sex or gender, especially discrimination against women.

   The fact that there is only one woman in a management position in that company makes it easy to believe that sexism runs rampant there.

   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.

3. Attitudes or actions that are based on or promote the expectation that people adhere to stereotypical social roles (gender roles) based on sex.

   The sexism of making and promoting violent films for men and romantic comedies for women.

Coordinate terms

• ableism
• ageism
• bigotry
• chauvinism
• enbyphobia
• genderism
• misogyny
• misandry
• discrimination
• heterosexism
• homophobia
• racism
• religionism

Derived terms

• antisexism
• cissexism
• crypto-sexism
• cybersexism
• heterosexism
• monosexism
• neurosexism
• nonsexism
• retrosexism
• reverse sexism

 

Related terms

• sex
• sexist

Translations

gender discrimination or dislike

• Afrikaans: seksisme
• Albanian: seksizëm m
• Armenian: սեռական խտրականություն (seṙakan xtrakanutʻyun), սեքսիզմ (sekʻsizm)
• Belarusian: сэксі́зм m (seksízm)
• Bulgarian: секси́зъм m (seksízǎm)
• Catalan: sexisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性別歧視 / 性别歧视 (zh) (xìngbié qíshì)

• Czech: sexismus (cs) m, sexizmus (cs) m
• Danish: sexisme (da) c
• Dutch: seksisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: seksismo (eo)
• Estonian: seksism
• Finnish: seksismi (fi)
• French: sexisme (fr) m
• Galician: sexismo m
• Georgian: სექსიზმი (seksizmi)
• German: Sexismus (de) m
• Greek: σεξισμός (el) m (sexismós)
• Hebrew: אפליה מינית
• Hindi: लिंगवाद m (liṅgvād)
• Hungarian: szexizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: kynjamismunun
• Ido: sexuismo (io)
• Irish: gnéasachas m, gnéasaíochas m
• Italian: sessismo (it) m
• Japanese: 性差別 (ja) (せいさべつ, seisabetsu)
• Korean: 성 차별 (seong chabyeol)
• Latin: sexismus m
• Macedonian: секси́зам m (seksízam)
• Norman: sexisme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sexisme m

• Persian: جنسیت‌گرایی (jensit-garâyi)
• Polish: seksizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: sexismo (pt) m
• Romanian: sexism n
• Russian: секси́зм (ru) m (sɛksízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сексизам m

  Roman: seksizam (sh) m

• Slovak: sexizmus m
• Slovene: seksizem m
• Spanish: sexismo (es) m
• Swedish: sexism (sv) c
• Thai: ลัทธิกีดกันทางเพศ (lát-tí gèet-gan-taang-pâyt)
• Ukrainian: секси́зм m (seksýzm)
• Vietnamese: phân biệt giới tính
• West Frisian: seksisme

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Translations to be checked

• Thai: ^{(please verify)} เพศนิยม (pâyt ní-yom)

Anagrams

• missex

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sexisme. By surface analysis, sex +‎ -ism.

Noun

sexism n (uncountable)

1. sexism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sexism	sexismul
genitive-dative	sexism	sexismului
vocative	sexismule

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sexism.

Noun

sexism c

1. sexism

Declension

Declension of sexism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sexism	sexisms
	definite	sexismen	sexismens
plural	indefinite	sexismer	sexismers
	definite	sexismerna	sexismernas

Related terms

• sexistisk (“sexist”)

See also

• kön

References

• sexism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sexism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken