{"id":18978,"date":"2021-12-10T02:10:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T01:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2023-02-03T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:35:06","slug":"what-is-gender-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Gender Prejudice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

All around the world, people face prejudice because of their gender. Prejudice put into action is an attack on human rights, including the right to life and safety, the right to housing, the right to education, to healthcare, to decent work, and so on. When most people hear \u201cgender prejudice,\u201d they assume it refers only to the still-prevalent bias against women and girls. However, gender prejudice also negatively affects trans people and people outside the gender binary. It\u2019s an intersectional issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is gender? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Gender isn\u2019t the same as sex. Sex refers to attributes like chromosomes, gonads, and anatomy. Medically speaking, a person can be born as either female, male, or intersex. Even these definitions are not fixed and there can be variations that make blanket statements about sex inaccurate. Gender, on the other hand, is a social construct. People can identify with the gender that society typically associates with their sex (cisgender) or they might not (transgender). Some don\u2019t identify with the binary at all. Terms<\/a> vary and shift with time, but anything that expands beyond a binary interpretation of sex, gender, and personal identity challenges societal norms.<\/p>\n

What does gender prejudice sound like? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Gender prejudice can be overt or subtle. Learning to recognize what it sounds and looks like is the first step to ending it and the discrimination<\/a> that follows. Here are three common statements that reveal gender prejudice:<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen are more emotional than men.\u201d <\/u><\/p>\n

The idea that women are more emotional and men are more rational is a long-standing assumption in society. For years, this justified keeping women out of politics and the workplace<\/a>, as well as treating them more like children than adults. Because of a woman\u2019s emotions and alleged tendency to be \u201chysterical,\u201d men were tasked with decision-making, conducting business, working in government, and so on. Even today, stereotypes about emotions affect women\u2019s ability to get good healthcare, be taken seriously at work, and get elected into political office. Anger is an especially off-limits emotion for women.<\/p>\n

Seeing emotions as \u201cwomanly\u201d and rationality as \u201cmanly\u201d hurts boys and men, too. Many boys grow up believing that \u201creal men don\u2019t cry,\u201d which forces them to suppress their feelings. This leads to issues like anxiety and depression. In fact, while more women report suicidal thoughts, men are more likely to die by suicide. The reasons for difference are complex, but it could mean that many men are not reporting their suicidal thoughts due to the fear of being emotionally vulnerable. Research leans toward the conclusion that men and women are both emotional creatures. One study<\/a> published in Nature followed 142 men and women over 75 days. After tracking their daily positive and negative emotions, the study found that the men’s and women\u2019s emotional stability was more similar than different. This points to the idea that any differences in emotion between men and women are the result of socialization and gender prejudice.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was asking for it.\u201d <\/u><\/p>\n

This statement is frequently expressed in one way or another after a woman is assaulted. It blames the attack on the victim based on any number of factors, such as what she was wearing, if she\u2019d been drinking, if she stayed out too late by herself, or if she\u2019d engaged in sexual activity before. Even people who don\u2019t intend to blame victims often play into this belief by focusing rape and assault prevention on what the potential victim needs to do, such as never leaving her drink unattended, always staying with a group, and so on. There\u2019s little focus on the perpetrators of violence and their choices. The fear of victim-blaming prevents many from reporting attacks.<\/p>\n

Consistently ignoring perpetrators affects other victims of gender-based violence<\/a>, such as members of the LGBTQ+ community. The \u201cgay panic\u201d or \u201ctrans panic\u201d defense is a legal strategy that seeks to dismiss crimes because perpetrators felt threatened or went temporarily insane because of the victim\u2019s gender or sexuality. These victims were, according to perpetrators, essentially \u201casking for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s women\u2019s\/men\u2019s work.\u201d <\/u><\/p>\n

The belief that work should be distributed by gender persists. It excludes women from leadership positions and roles that require physical strength, while stigmatizing men in roles traditionally occupied by women like domestic and caretaking work. Believing that only women should do certain work – work which often pays lower wages – leads to real effects on women, their families, and the economy as a whole.<\/p>\n

Gendering certain kinds of work also impacts how much unpaid labor women are responsible for. According to an ILO report<\/a>, on average around the world women spend 3.2 times more time than men on unpaid work. There is no country where this labor is split equally. This affects women\u2019s ability to participate in the economy. When certain work is seen as \u201cwomen\u2019s work,\u201d it loses value due to gender prejudice and affects everyone in those roles, regardless of their gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":19097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8805],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Is Gender Prejudice? | Human Rights Careers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Is Gender Prejudice?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Human Rights Careers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HumanRightsCareers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-10T01:10:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-03T04:35:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pexels-anete-lusina-5721294.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emmaline Soken-Huberty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@HuRiCareers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@HuRiCareers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emmaline Soken-Huberty\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Emmaline Soken-Huberty\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6f1a5aa6d77a682162b2d76bcf1628e4\"},\"headline\":\"What Is Gender Prejudice?\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-10T01:10:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-03T04:35:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/\"},\"wordCount\":832,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pexels-anete-lusina-5721294.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Issues\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.humanrightscareers.com\/issues\/what-is-gender-prejudice\/\",\"name\":\"What Is Gender Prejudice? 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