noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gender bender
gender bias
gender inequality
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Gender inequality starts at home and in school.
political/gender/racial etc bias
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political bias in the press
racial/class/gender etc division
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The old class divisions had begun to break down.
sex/gender differences (= between men and women )
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gender differences in levels of criminality
sexual/gender stereotypes
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Feminists justifiably object to these sexual stereotypes.
the gender gap (= the difference between men and women )
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The gender gap was visible in the way men and women voted during the presidential elections.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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The connotations are also quite different according to gender and property relations.
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For example, be a different gender from your neighbor because he or she will probably turn out to be your mate.
ethnic
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Teachers lack the skills necessary to incorporate and transform ethnic or gender cultures into a form which is educationally relevant.
female
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On some occasions she had the female gender symbol painted on both cheeks.
grammatical
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We can see this very clearly if we consider the grammatical category of gender .
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The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender.
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All these possibilities exemplify the phenomenon of grammatical gender because items are classified according to their form.
racial
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Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
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Jackson called on them to keep up the fight to retain racial and gender preferences in federal hiring.
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He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.
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It would ban racial and gender preferences in all state government hiring, contracting and education programs.
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Earlier, he opposed Prop. 209, which would ban racial and gender preferences in state programs.
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At least a dozen lawsuits filed recently illuminate the racial and gender friction within the agency.
social
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But the way a method works depends on social differences apart from gender .
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There is in this du Transvestites and transsexuals do not challenge the social construction of gender .
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Changing the Subject pays continuous attention to psychological, psychoanalytic, and social discourses of gender .
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Theories of socialization also tend to provide implicitly biological explanations of social relations other than gender .
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On the complex differences of social class, gender and ethnicity, Ramp ton was conspicuously silent.
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The sharia resurgence has created social complications and gender discrimination.
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The combination of these two factors - social class and gender - means that many one-parent families live in poverty.
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Theoretically it should contribute to an understanding of the social construction of gender ordering of institutions.
traditional
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Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.
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This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender .
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Androgynous women who do not blend their behaviour are less affected by traditional ideas of gender .
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Since these women too had traditional gender roles, how was their greater use of this vernacular feature to be explained?
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Children separate parents and define their roles along traditional gender lines.
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It may be hard to move away from traditional gender roles at a time of unemployment.
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At times, feminist invocations of psychology ignore or even reproduce traditional psychology's gender biases.
■ NOUN
bias
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In Amalgamemnon the technique of mimétisme is generalized as the awareness of gender bias becomes more prominent.
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Is this clear evidence of gender bias in the manual?
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Psychological theories support two main forms of gender bias .
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Procedural gender biases are a source of serious anxiety in a science as powerfully dependent on method as psychology.
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Sociobiology's gender biases emerge more generally in its selectivity about genetics.
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Woman-centred psychologists also criticize the gender bias of traditional psychological method.
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Their attempts to provide more objective methods do not challenge the gender bias involved in psychological notions of objectivity.
category
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As a feminist, I am interested in the role that gender categories play in any process of self-constitution.
difference
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Potentially the hermaphrodite dissolves gender difference and, at least in its associated idea of androgyny, has become acceptable.
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Past research has looked at how the age of puberty affects subsequent risk of problems and found sharp gender differences .
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Another issue, as yet little studied or confronted, is that of gender differences in access to education and achievement at school.
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Why are there such gender differences ?
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In contrast, Piaroa minimize gender differences and maintain the same normative code of non-violent behaviour for both males and females.
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Federman said this gender difference is consistent with that in the general public.
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Equally, gender differences are probably not as straight forward as they first appear.
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The gender differences explored here are social constructions that have had influence in certain mainstream discourses.
discrimination
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Women's groups also resented the imposition of limits for gender discrimination while damages for racial bias were unlimited.
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They started out as a radically inclusive spiritual fellowship in which race and gender discrimination virtually disappeared.
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Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination .
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Justice Ginsburg has actually built her career on pushing for stricter standards on gender discrimination .
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The sharia resurgence has created social complications and gender discrimination .
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In the process, Clementsen has become a talking point in the debate over gender discrimination .
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Some large private companies are also quietly adjusting their pay structure to remove race and gender discrimination .
distinction
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Only those strategies used to overcome difficulties arising from gender distinctions will be commented on.
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The gender distinction nevertheless exists in some semantic areas and in the person system.
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In some languages, such as Arabic, gender distinctions apply to the second- as well as third-person pronouns.
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I mentioned earlier that the gender distinction in Arabic applies to the second as well as third person.
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The gender distinction is avoided by using a totally different structure throughout the whole set of instructions.
division
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During the 1970s sociologists were beginning to think about how to incorporate gender divisions into sociological theory.
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The gender division is reducible to biology.
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In a case like this, gender divisions interact with inheritance patterns to produce particular forms of relationship between brothers and sisters.
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The third stage - Utopian at this point - was to transcend gender divisions altogether.
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The gender divisions are, if anything, even more entrenched.
equality
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Countries that have pursued gender equality over the past three to four decades have grown faster and become more equal societies.
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But they admit that gender equality in New Zealand is still a long way off.
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Because the welfare state is not neutral with respect to gender equality , it also takes sides on the question of language.
gap
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The gender gap is the difference between these two margins: 16 percentage points.
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Conscious of the gender gap , even more are pursuing initiatives targeted specifically at women.
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Apart from some narrowing of the gender gap , this situation largely persisted through the eighteenth century.
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Some analysts say the possible effect of the gender gap is being overblown.
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A large gender gap is not necessarily good news for Democrats, of course.
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They show that he has a huge task ahead if he is to reverse the gender gap by November 7.
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Growing or not, the gender gap is intriguing.
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Polls indicated education was one of the top voter issues, contributing to the pro-Clinton gender gap among women.
identity
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Brown said Chapdelaine would live for a year in her new gender identity before surgery could be considered.
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Some aspects of gender identity also take longer to acquire than socialization theory predicts.
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Interviews were the obvious method for researching the interlinked topics of gender identity and subject specialization.
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This would have involved giving the criterion of gender identity precedence over physiological criteria.
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We are told that irresponsible women get pregnant solely to reinforce their gender identity .
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While the above are possibly reinforcing features, school curricula, may also evoke tensions in gender identities .
inequality
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Yet finding out what happens in higher education is of utmost importance in understanding the patterns of gender inequality that exist.
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Whatever changes may be occurring in their work as marketers, this gender inequality persists.
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According to Angie Romorola, gender inequalities are very well entrenched.
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He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities .
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She demonstrates that policies of amelioration will do in more than touch the surface unless fundamental gender inequalities are addressed.
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The significance of the class and gender inequalities which are intertwined with the racism that black students encounter is thus underplayed.
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However, it is generally recognized that gender inequality in education is in many respects different from inequality of class.
issue
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Women-for the most part psychologists-have organized to attempt to affect gender issues .
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This model, too, is silent on gender issues , although it leaves more space for their inclusion.
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I enjoy science fiction, written by women, dealing with gender issues .
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However, it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management.
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Are men not helping more at home because of gender issues ?
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And at times it criticizes class-based politics, for its omission and marginalization of gender issues .
politics
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Does attention to unconscious wishes and conflicts necessarily produce a more careful gender politics ?
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Also excluded are the currently fashionable workshops and seminars on such provocative topics as diversity, group sensitivity, and gender politics .
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The traditional monument has tended to confound gender politics .
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Sometimes the emphasis on gender politics sounds more predictable or heavy handed.
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But this doesn t fit the media obsession with gender politics .
preference
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Jackson called on them to keep up the fight to retain racial and gender preferences in federal hiring.
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It would ban racial and gender preferences in all state government hiring, contracting and education programs.
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Earlier, he opposed Prop. 209, which would ban racial and gender preferences in state programs.
role
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It is easy to assume that any significant, gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles .
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The data suggest that gender role is influential.
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We need to look, then, for the specific practices that produce gender roles rather than stopping at the roles themselves.
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He clearly portrays the pressures that changing gender roles exert on family life.
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Since these women too had traditional gender roles , how was their greater use of this vernacular feature to be explained?
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But what it correlates with is not a gender role but more specifically a child-rearing role.
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It may be hard to move away from traditional gender roles at a time of unemployment.
■ VERB
based
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Also present within civil society are various other social groupings, particularly those based on gender , race, generation and nation.
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If elected, Buchanan promised, he would end all hirings based on race and gender .
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There were similar inequalities based on gender and region among those who had completed primary and secondary school cycles.
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Proposition 209 bars preferences based on race and gender in public employment, contracting and education in state and local government.
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Discrimination based on race, gender or nationality would also be barred under the proposed guidelines.
change
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Woman-centred psychology, like egalitarian feminist psychology, needs to address theory if it is really to change psychological discourses of gender .
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The replacement jurors, a male and female, changed the gender makeup of the panel to eight men and four women.
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He clearly portrays the pressures that changing gender roles exert on family life.
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When he dies, the largest female simply changes gender .
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And if the comparison is changed , the gender may change as well.
determine
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The first task is to sight the deer, then determine the species and gender .
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But it is notable for another reason: It has a peculiar way of determining the gender of its babies.
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There are at least three different and better ways to determine your gender .
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It means determining the gender for breeding purposes.
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A second way of determining gender is to leave it to the environment.
show
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The Mason-Dixon poll shows a significant gender gap for Dole.
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With the exit polls Tuesday showing an unprecedented gender difference of 17 points, Clinton stretched the gap into a gulf.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an interesting study on gender bias in the classroom
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Hiring employees on the basis of gender or race is not permitted.
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Sociologists believe that gender differences in voting will gradually disappear.
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The job is open to any suitably qualified person regardless of age, gender , or race.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It would ban racial and gender preferences in all state government hiring, contracting and education programs.
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Professional relationships for women are those which are characterised among other things as not acknowledging the gender of the people involved.
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Restrictions on and beliefs about language may be part of the construction of gender rather than a simple reflection of it.
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The nation was organized not only in class terms but also in terms of gender and age.
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We are interested in these questions, of course, because we are also interested in gender .