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19 Cards in this Set
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Body consciousness
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How a person perceives and feels about his or her body.
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Comparable worth (or pay equity)
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The belief that wages ought to reflect the worth of a job, not the gender or race of the worker.
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Cross-dresser
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A male who dresses as a woman or a female who dresses as a man but doesn't alter genitalia.
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Feminism
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The belief that all people--both women and men--are equal and that they should be valued equally and have equal rights.
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Gender
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The culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with "femininity" and "masculinity"
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Gender bias
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Behaviors that shows favoritism toward one gender over the other.
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Gender identity
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A person's perception of the self as female or male.
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Gender role
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The attitudes, behavior, and cavities that are socially defines as appropriate for each sex and are learned through the socialization process.
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Homophobia
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Extreme prejudice and sometimes discriminatory actions directed at gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and others who are perceived as not being heterosexual.
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Intersexed person
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An individual who is born with a reproductive anatomy that doesn't correspond to typical definitions of male or female; Sexual differentiation is ambiguous.
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Matriarchy
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A hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by women
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Patriarchy
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A hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by men.
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Pay gap
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The disparity between women's and men's earnings.
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Primary sex characteristics
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The genitalia used in the reproductive process.
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Secondary sex characteristics
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The physical traits (other than reproductive organs) that identify an individual's sex.
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Sex
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The biological and anatomical differences between females and males.
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Sexism
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The subordination of sex, usually female, based on the assumed superiority of the other sex.
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Sexual orientation
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A person's preference for emotions--sexual relationships with members of the opposite sex (heterosexuality), the same sex (homosexuality), or both (bisexuality)
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Transgendered person
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An individual whose gender identity (self-identification as woman, man, neither, or both) doesn't match the person's assigned sex
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