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gendered

gendered

5 4.8
Having qualities people expect of men or women
  • adjective
  • /ˈdʒɛndərd/
translation icon : de género
  • Many advertisements portray gendered roles, suggesting that men should be strong and women should be nurturing.
  • gendered identity
  • gendered nature
  • gendered roles

You know, it's a very gendered thing, right?

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Examples

  • First, we're operating with one hand tied behind our back because of these gendered and cultural invisible scripts.

  • And that's because our educational and intellectual life is divided in this gendered way.

  • We talked about the gendered aspects of food and eating.

  • Our very concept of ourselves as gendered subjects requires a social world.

  • We might call this a case of limited cultural "liberation" under conditions of gendered, structural economic violence.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In addition, observations were conducted in a local primary school focusing on patterns of gendered interactions in the classroom.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The superheroine is a gendered body of contradiction, at once conservative and liberal, traditional and radical.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The opera's opening scene immediately establishes the gendered hierarchy which it will both undermine and sustain.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Transgender individuals may use disordered eating behaviors to suppress or accentuate particular gendered features.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Finally, organizational narratives disguise and perpetuate the gendered nature of social practices (Ely & Meyerson, 2000; Olsson, 2002).

    Academic text (2008)

How Gendered

stereotypical
34 4.4
gendered
5 4.8
genderless
2 5.6

Surface Forms

gendered positive

Morphology

gendered = gender (transparent) = gender + ed

Clearly formed by adding '-ed' to 'gender' to mean 'characterized by or relating to gendered qualities or bias'.

Etymology

Gendered comes from gender, which goes back to the Latin genus meaning 'kind' or 'type' and is the same root behind generation. So, when something is called gendered it is given qualities or roles for a certain gender, as when toys are seen as 'for boys' or 'for girls'.