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| The biological difference between males and females. |
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| The social and cultural significance that we attach to the biological differences of sex. |
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| Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality. |
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| The idea that men learn and play a full range of gender roles. |
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| The person in the family who bears responsibility for the completion of tasks, focuses on more distant goals, and manages the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions. |
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| The person in the family who bears responsibility for the maintenance of harmony and internal emotional affairs. |
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| An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender, race, or ethnicity. |
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| The double burden - work outside the home followed by child care and housework - that many women face and few share equitably. |
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| The ideology that one sex is superior to the other. |
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| Institutional Discrimination |
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| A pattern of treatment that systematically denies a group access to resources and opportunities as part of society's normal operations. |
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| The belief in social, economic, and political equality for women. |
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