WHAT IS SEXISM?
Sexism
Sexism in the discrimination of people of one sex because they are considered inferior to the other. It leads to a set of notions, expressions and social practices, which, based on social difference, legitmizes and reinforces social inequality between people. (Alcaldia de Medellin, 2011)
How is it done?
Sexism is a form of discrimination that uses sex as a criterion of attribution of capabilities, valuations and meanings created in social life.
That is, based on a social and cultural construction, society orders reality in two drawers that are respectively marked “this is the feminine” “this is the
“masculine” and, like other forms of discrimination, tends to restrict women people in imposed parameters