Glossary of terms
Glossary of terms
Implicit bias:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/implicit-bias/
Feminism:
Feminism is the belief that women are equal to men socially, politically and economically and with equal respect.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feminism
Sexism:
Sexism or gender discrimination is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s sex or gender. Sexism can affect any gender, but it is particularly documented as affecting women and girls.[1] It has been linked to stereotypes and gender roles,[2][3] and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another.[4] Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.
NB Sexism may be unintentional, institutional or based on societal attitudes. It is not always overt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism
Misogyny:
Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including social exclusion, sex discrimination, hostility, androcentrism, patriarchy, male privilege, belittling of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny
Prejudice and Stereotyping:
“Prejudice and stereotyping are biases that work together to create and maintain social inequality. Prejudice refers to the attitudes and feelings—whether positive or negative and whether conscious or non-conscious—that people have about members of other groups. In contrast, stereotypes have traditionally been defined as specific beliefs about a group, such as descriptions of what members of a particular group look like, how they behave, or their abilities.”
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199828340/obo-9780199828340-0097.xml
Generalization:
“a written or spoken statement in which you say or write that something is true all of the time when it is only true some of the time”
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/generalization
Positive Discrimination:
The deliberate and conscious decision to counteract negative discrimination.
“the act of giving advantage to those groups in society that are often treated unfairly because of their race, sex,”
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/positive-discrimination
Affirmative Action:
“Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring minority group members; i.e., positive steps designed to eliminate existing and continuing discrimination, to remedy lingering effects of past discrimination, and to create systems and procedures to prevent future discrimination; commonly based on population percentages of minority groups in a particular area. Factors considered are race, color, sex, creed, and age.”
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Positive+discrimination
Male privilege:
Male privilege is a concept used to examine the social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are made available to men solely on the basis of their sex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_privilege
Mansplaining:
Mansplaining covers a heterogeneous mix of mannerisms in which a speaker’s reduced respect for the stance of a listener, or a person being discussed, appears to have little reason behind it other than the speaker’s assumption that the listener or subject, being female, does not have the same capacity to understand as a man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining
Meritocracy myth:
“A disadvantaged child will nearly always and everywhere become a disadvantaged adult.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/meritocracy-is-a-myth-9483779.html
Double Standard:
“A double standard may take the form of an instance in which certain concepts (often, for example, a word, phrase, social norm, or rule) are perceived as acceptable to be applied by one group of people, but are considered unacceptable—taboo—when applied by another group.”
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