genderist attitude
- noun
- Offensive
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actitud sexista
- Her report highlights how a genderist attitude can affect career advancement in the workplace.
Examples
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The manager was criticized for his genderist attitude toward female employees.
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Many activists are challenging the genderist attitudes that persist in politics and media.
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His genderist attitude was evident in the way he spoke to women.
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Many people still hold genderist attitudes in the workplace.
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Her report highlights how a genderist attitude can affect career advancement in the workplace.
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The manager was criticized for his genderist attitude toward female employees.
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Many activists are challenging the genderist attitudes that persist in politics and media.
Synonyms
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Unfair acts and ideas about people because of their sex, often against women
Antonyms
How Discriminatory
- Offensive
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- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
genderist + attitude
The phrase is partially deducible because 'attitude' clearly means a way of thinking and 'genderist' can be parsed as relating to 'gender' with an -ist agent/ideology suffix (analogous to 'sexist' or 'racist'), so a learner could infer it refers to a gender-related stance. However, 'genderist' is not a common established word and understanding its specific discriminatory sense requires knowledge of the -ist derivation or prior exposure, so the meaning is not fully predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
The term genderist attitude comes from combining gender (being male or female) with the ending -ist (as in 'racist') and attitude (a way of thinking). This creates the image of a person who looks at others through a narrow view and treats them differently because of their gender, so it means 'a view or behaviour that discriminates against people based on their gender'.