12.4: Key Terms
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- 21783
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- biological determinism
- the belief that men and women behave differently due to inherent sex differences related to their biology
- doing gender
- the performance of tasks based upon the gender assigned to us by society and, in turn, ourselves
- DOMA
- Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 U.S. law explicitly limiting the definition of “marriage” to a union between one man and one woman and allowing each individual state to recognize or deny same-sex marriages performed in other states
- double standard
- the concept that prohibits premarital sexual intercourse for women but allows it for men
- gender
- a term that refers to social or cultural distinctions of behaviors that are considered male or female
- gender dysphoria
- a condition listed in the DSM-5 in which people whose gender at birth is contrary to the one they identify with. This condition replaces "gender identity disorder"
- gender identity
- a person’s deeply held internal perception of one's gender
- gender role
- society’s concept of how men and women should behave
- glass ceiling
- an invisible barrier that women encounter when trying to win jobs in the highest level of business
- heterosexism
- an ideology and a set of institutional practices that privilege straight people and heterosexuality over other sexual orientations
- homophobia
- an extreme or irrational aversion to gay, lesbian, bisexual, or all LGBTQ people, which often manifests as prejudice and bias
- intersex
- people born with sex characteristics (including genitals, gonads and chromosome patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies.
- misogyny
- the hatred of or, aversion to, or prejudice against women
- pay gap
- the difference in earnings between men and women
- sex
- a term that denotes the presence of physical or physiological differences between males and females
- sexism
- the prejudiced belief that one sex should be valued over another
- sexual orientation
- a person’s physical, mental, emotional, and sexual attraction to a particular sex (male or female)
- sexuality
- a person’s capacity for sexual feelings
- social construction of sexuality
- socially created definitions about the cultural appropriateness of sex-linked behavior which shape how people see and experience sexuality
- transgender
- an adjective that describes individuals who identify with the behaviors and characteristics that are other than their biological sex