male chauvinism
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6.2
- noun
- /meɪl ˈʃoʊvɪnɪzəm/
- Offensive
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machismo
- Here, the very advocate for women's causes was placed under the revolutionary lens of elite women's activism, showing how elite women were willing to question patriarchy and male chauvinism.
Examples
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This confirmed to Shulie, Ellen, and others that male chauvinism was alive and well on the New Left.
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In the workplace, male chauvinism often leads to unequal pay and fewer opportunities for women.
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I have also not yet met a man who does not carry some degree of male chauvinism about him, no matter how small.
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And I had never experienced male chauvinism before coming from San Diego.
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The important thing is to keep any vestiges of male chauvinism out of the curriculum.
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But it was always seen by feminists as oppression and male chauvinism.
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She helped me to get a deeper understanding of just how insidious the male chauvinism in the movement was and why the emergence of Women's Liberation, and its manifestation in the underground press, was inevitable.
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Michele Wallace, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (New York: Dial, 1979), calls upon black women to assert their identity in a world of white racism and black male chauvinism.
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Many organizations are actively working to eliminate male chauvinism from their policies and practices.
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The campaign aims to raise awareness about the negative effects of male chauvinism on society.
Synonyms
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4.9
Unfair acts and ideas about people because of their sex, often against women
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8.2
Belief that men are better than women
A strong belief that your group is better than others, often favoring men or your country
How Sexist
- Offensive
37
7.6
- Offensive
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6.2
- Offensive
109
4.9
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'male' specifies the target group (men) and 'chauvinism' means an attitude of superiority or prejudice, so together they denote prejudice in favor of men. This adjectival + noun composition is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Male chauvinism comes from the name 'Chauvin', a man who long ago showed very strong, blind loyalty to his country, and people used 'chauvinism' to mean an unreasonable belief that one group is better than others. Adding male to chauvinism shows the unfair belief is about men, so male chauvinism means 'believing men are better than women'.