sexist attitudes

collocation in English

meaningsofsexistandattitude

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sexist
adjective
uk
/ˈsek.sɪst/us
/ˈsek.sɪst/
suggesting that the members of one sex are less able, intelligent, etc. than the members of the other sex, or referring to that sex's bodies, behaviour, or feelings in a ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofsexistandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It shows that we have to do a great deal to change this sort ofsexistattitudeto parents, families and children.
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Her use of the word masculine indicates asexistattitude, in which, masculinity plays no role in nurture or affection.
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Ageism, combined with sexist attitudes, can have double-barrelled effects for older women.
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Old sexist attitudes die hard—in fact, they are not dead at all.
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A great deal of that stems from a widespread hangover of sexist attitudes in our society.
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However, studies investigating whether sexist attitudes are correlated with domestic violence have shown conflicting results.
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Her speech, in which she criticized her male colleagues for their sexist attitudes, was yelled at.
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When we start to couch this in language of brain differences, we are basically turning sexist attitudes into some kind of pseudo-scientific data...
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As pointed to by its title, the lyrics also mock and refute the sexist attitudes of the original song.
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She often has to put up with the sexist attitudes of her comrades, such as being forced to do the heavy labor.
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Norris constantly struggles against sexist attitudes about the role of a woman in police work.
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Finding her time at university difficult in many respects, she struggled to accept the atmosphere of an institution which had only recently begun to challenge sexist attitudes.
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Investigators did link 12 accounts to known events, but their investigation was inconclusive, aside from the use of racial epithets and sexist attitudes toward female officers, which was substantiated.
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