gendergen‧der /ˈdʒendə $ -ər/ ●○○ AWL noun 
people of the same gender Discrimination on grounds of race or gender is forbidden. There may be gender differences in attitudes to paid work. traditional gender roles gender biases in books toys that do not reinforce gender stereotypes a science fiction story dealing with gender issues2[countable] males or females, considered as a group SYN sex: differences between the genders3a)[uncountable] the system in some languages of marking words such as nouns, adjectives, and pronouns as being masculine, feminine, or neuter b)[countable] a group such as feminine into which words are divided in this systemCOLLOCATIONSgender + NOUNa gender difference· Research has shown that there are gender differences in the way alcohol affects the brain.the gender gap (=a difference between men and women)· The gender gap was visible in the way men and women voted during the presidential elections.gender roles (=the positions of men and women in society)· It is a country where gender roles have remained largely unchanged.gender bias/inequality/discrimination (=when one gender is treated unfairly)· Her research investigates gender bias in the classroom.gender equality (=when men and women are treated in the same way)· Organizations have a duty to promote gender equality.gender relations (=the way in which men and women behave towards each other)· The best way to understand gender relations is to study children.a gender stereotype (=a fixed idea of what men or women are like)· The characters in the novel were criticized for being gender stereotypes.gender politics (=the way in which men and women compete with each other for power)· Much of the discussion of gender politics is rather simplistic.gender issues (=ideas and problems related to being male or female)· Businesses seem to pay more attention to gender issues in senior positions.gender identity (=whether someone is male or female)· Gender identity refers to our inner feeling of being masculine or feminine.
WORD ORIGINgender
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French gendre, from Latin genus; ➔ GENUSEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- an interesting study on gender bias in the classroom
- Hiring employees on the basis of gender or race is not permitted.
- Sociologists believe that gender differences in voting will gradually disappear.
- The job is open to any suitably qualified person regardless of age, gender, or race.
- It would ban racial and gender preferences in all state government hiring, contracting and education programs.
- Professional relationships for women are those which are characterised among other things as not acknowledging the gender of the people involved.
- Restrictions on and beliefs about language may be part of the construction of gender rather than a simple reflection of it.
- The nation was organized not only in class terms but also in terms of gender and age.
- We are interested in these questions, of course, because we are also interested in gender.
Longman Language Activatormale or female
someone's sex is whether they are male or female: · You have to put your name, age, and sex on the form.· You can now find out your baby's sex before it is born.· Eating disorders affect people of both sexes, not just girls.the same sex: · Are the twins the same sex?the opposite sex (=the sex which is not your own): · Rupert has never shown much interest in members of the opposite sex.sex discrimination (=unfair treatment of someone because of their sex): · Most women are confronted by sex discrimination at some time in their working lives.
someone's gender is whether they are male or female - used especially in writing about politics and society, or in job advertisements: · The job is open to any suitably qualified person regardless of age, gender, or race.gender distinction/difference/division (=a difference between men and women): · Sociologists believe that gender differences in voting will gradually disappear.gender bias/stereotyping (=treating someone in a particular way because of their gender): · an interesting study on gender bias in the classroom
relating to the differences between male and female or the characteristics of men or women: · Birds have developed a sexual difference in the colours of their feathers.sexual equality/inequality (=equality or inequality between men and women): · Sexual inequality exists, to some degree, in every society.sexual politics (=social and political behaviour and ideas relating to men and women): · Men say that they are confused by today's sexual politics in the workplace.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYgender + NOUN political bias in the press The old class divisions had begun to break down.
1[countable, uncountable] the fact of being male or female: · Research has shown that there are gender differences in the way alcohol affects the brain.
(=a difference between men and women)· The gender gap was visible in the way men and women voted during the presidential elections.
(=the positions of men and women in society)· It is a country where gender roles have remained largely unchanged.
(=when one gender is treated unfairly)· Her research investigates gender bias in the classroom.
(=when men and women are treated in the same way)· Organizations have a duty to promote gender equality.
(=the way in which men and women behave towards each other)· The best way to understand gender relations is to study children.
(=a fixed idea of what men or women are like)· The characters in the novel were criticized for being gender stereotypes.
(=the way in which men and women compete with each other for power)· Much of the discussion of gender politics is rather simplistic.
(=ideas and problems related to being male or female)· Businesses seem to pay more attention to gender issues in senior positions.
(=whether someone is male or female)· Gender identity refers to our inner feeling of being masculine or feminine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES political bias in the press (=between men and women)· gender differences in levels of criminality
The old class divisions had begun to break down. (=the difference between men and women)· The gender gap was visible in the way men and women voted during the presidential elections.
· Gender inequality starts at home and in school.
· Feminists justifiably object to these sexual stereotypes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The connotations are also quite different according to gender and property relations.· For example, be a different gender from your neighbor because he or she will probably turn out to be your mate.
· Teachers lack the skills necessary to incorporate and transform ethnic or gender cultures into a form which is educationally relevant.
· On some occasions she had the female gender symbol painted on both cheeks.
· We can see this very clearly if we consider the grammatical category of gender.· The nineteenth century Germanic philologist Jakob Grimm believed that grammatical gender was in some sense a more advanced form of natural gender.· All these possibilities exemplify the phenomenon of grammatical gender because items are classified according to their form.
· Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.· Jackson called on them to keep up the fight to retain racial and gender preferences in federal hiring.· He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.· It would ban racial and gender preferences in all state government hiring, contracting and education programs.· Earlier, he opposed Prop. 209, which would ban racial and gender preferences in state programs.· At least a dozen lawsuits filed recently illuminate the racial and gender friction within the agency.
· But the way a method works depends on social differences apart from gender.· There is in this du Transvestites and transsexuals do not challenge the social construction of gender.· Changing the Subject pays continuous attention to psychological, psychoanalytic, and social discourses of gender.· Theories of socialization also tend to provide implicitly biological explanations of social relations other than gender.· On the complex differences of social class, gender and ethnicity, Ramp ton was conspicuously silent.· The sharia resurgence has created social complications and gender discrimination.· The combination of these two factors - social class and gender - means that many one-parent families live in poverty.· Theoretically it should contribute to an understanding of the social construction of gender ordering of institutions.
· Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.· This underlying biologism allows them to preserve traditional concepts of gender.· Androgynous women who do not blend their behaviour are less affected by traditional ideas of gender.· Since these women too had traditional gender roles, how was their greater use of this vernacular feature to be explained?· Children separate parents and define their roles along traditional gender lines.· It may be hard to move away from traditional gender roles at a time of unemployment.· At times, feminist invocations of psychology ignore or even reproduce traditional psychology's gender biases.
NOUN· In Amalgamemnon the technique of mimétisme is generalized as the awareness of gender bias becomes more prominent.· Is this clear evidence of gender bias in the manual?· Psychological theories support two main forms of gender bias.· Procedural gender biases are a source of serious anxiety in a science as powerfully dependent on method as psychology.· Sociobiology's gender biases emerge more generally in its selectivity about genetics.· Woman-centred psychologists also criticize the gender bias of traditional psychological method.· Their attempts to provide more objective methods do not challenge the gender bias involved in psychological notions of objectivity.
· As a feminist, I am interested in the role that gender categories play in any process of self-constitution.
· Potentially the hermaphrodite dissolves gender difference and, at least in its associated idea of androgyny, has become acceptable.· Past research has looked at how the age of puberty affects subsequent risk of problems and found sharp gender differences.· Another issue, as yet little studied or confronted, is that of gender differences in access to education and achievement at school.· Why are there such gender differences?· In contrast, Piaroa minimize gender differences and maintain the same normative code of non-violent behaviour for both males and females.· Federman said this gender difference is consistent with that in the general public.· Equally, gender differences are probably not as straight forward as they first appear.· The gender differences explored here are social constructions that have had influence in certain mainstream discourses.
· Women's groups also resented the imposition of limits for gender discrimination while damages for racial bias were unlimited.· They started out as a radically inclusive spiritual fellowship in which race and gender discrimination virtually disappeared.· Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.· Justice Ginsburg has actually built her career on pushing for stricter standards on gender discrimination.· The sharia resurgence has created social complications and gender discrimination.· In the process, Clementsen has become a talking point in the debate over gender discrimination.· Some large private companies are also quietly adjusting their pay structure to remove race and gender discrimination.
· Only those strategies used to overcome difficulties arising from gender distinctions will be commented on.· The gender distinction nevertheless exists in some semantic areas and in the person system.· In some languages, such as Arabic, gender distinctions apply to the second- as well as third-person pronouns.· I mentioned earlier that the gender distinction in Arabic applies to the second as well as third person.· The gender distinction is avoided by using a totally different structure throughout the whole set of instructions.
· During the 1970s sociologists were beginning to think about how to incorporate gender divisions into sociological theory.· The gender division is reducible to biology.· In a case like this, gender divisions interact with inheritance patterns to produce particular forms of relationship between brothers and sisters.· The third stage - Utopian at this point - was to transcend gender divisions altogether.· The gender divisions are, if anything, even more entrenched.
· Countries that have pursued gender equality over the past three to four decades have grown faster and become more equal societies.· But they admit that gender equality in New Zealand is still a long way off.· Because the welfare state is not neutral with respect to gender equality, it also takes sides on the question of language.
· The gender gap is the difference between these two margins: 16 percentage points.· Conscious of the gender gap, even more are pursuing initiatives targeted specifically at women.· Apart from some narrowing of the gender gap, this situation largely persisted through the eighteenth century.· Some analysts say the possible effect of the gender gap is being overblown.· A large gender gap is not necessarily good news for Democrats, of course.· They show that he has a huge task ahead if he is to reverse the gender gap by November 7.· Growing or not, the gender gap is intriguing.· Polls indicated education was one of the top voter issues, contributing to the pro-Clinton gender gap among women.
· Brown said Chapdelaine would live for a year in her new gender identity before surgery could be considered.· Some aspects of gender identity also take longer to acquire than socialization theory predicts.· Interviews were the obvious method for researching the interlinked topics of gender identity and subject specialization.· This would have involved giving the criterion of gender identity precedence over physiological criteria.· We are told that irresponsible women get pregnant solely to reinforce their gender identity.· While the above are possibly reinforcing features, school curricula, may also evoke tensions in gender identities.
· Yet finding out what happens in higher education is of utmost importance in understanding the patterns of gender inequality that exist.· Whatever changes may be occurring in their work as marketers, this gender inequality persists.· According to Angie Romorola, gender inequalities are very well entrenched.· He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.· She demonstrates that policies of amelioration will do in more than touch the surface unless fundamental gender inequalities are addressed.· The significance of the class and gender inequalities which are intertwined with the racism that black students encounter is thus underplayed.· However, it is generally recognized that gender inequality in education is in many respects different from inequality of class.
· Women-for the most part psychologists-have organized to attempt to affect gender issues.· This model, too, is silent on gender issues, although it leaves more space for their inclusion.· I enjoy science fiction, written by women, dealing with gender issues.· However, it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management.· Are men not helping more at home because of gender issues?· And at times it criticizes class-based politics, for its omission and marginalization of gender issues.
· Does attention to unconscious wishes and conflicts necessarily produce a more careful gender politics?· Also excluded are the currently fashionable workshops and seminars on such provocative topics as diversity, group sensitivity, and gender politics.· The traditional monument has tended to confound gender politics.· Sometimes the emphasis on gender politics sounds more predictable or heavy handed.· But this doesn t fit the media obsession with gender politics.
· Jackson called on them to keep up the fight to retain racial and gender preferences in federal hiring.· It would ban racial and gender preferences in all state government hiring, contracting and education programs.· Earlier, he opposed Prop. 209, which would ban racial and gender preferences in state programs.
· It is easy to assume that any significant, gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles.· The data suggest that gender role is influential.· We need to look, then, for the specific practices that produce gender roles rather than stopping at the roles themselves.· He clearly portrays the pressures that changing gender roles exert on family life.· Since these women too had traditional gender roles, how was their greater use of this vernacular feature to be explained?· But what it correlates with is not a gender role but more specifically a child-rearing role.· It may be hard to move away from traditional gender roles at a time of unemployment.
VERB· Also present within civil society are various other social groupings, particularly those based on gender, race, generation and nation.· If elected, Buchanan promised, he would end all hirings based on race and gender.· There were similar inequalities based on gender and region among those who had completed primary and secondary school cycles.· Proposition 209 bars preferences based on race and gender in public employment, contracting and education in state and local government.· Discrimination based on race, gender or nationality would also be barred under the proposed guidelines.
· Woman-centred psychology, like egalitarian feminist psychology, needs to address theory if it is really to change psychological discourses of gender.· The replacement jurors, a male and female, changed the gender makeup of the panel to eight men and four women.· He clearly portrays the pressures that changing gender roles exert on family life.· When he dies, the largest female simply changes gender.· And if the comparison is changed, the gender may change as well.
· The first task is to sight the deer, then determine the species and gender.· But it is notable for another reason: It has a peculiar way of determining the gender of its babies.· There are at least three different and better ways to determine your gender.· It means determining the gender for breeding purposes.· A second way of determining gender is to leave it to the environment.
· The Mason-Dixon poll shows a significant gender gap for Dole.· With the exit polls Tuesday showing an unprecedented gender difference of 17 points, Clinton stretched the gap into a gulf.
people of the same gender Discrimination on grounds of race or gender is forbidden. There may be gender differences in attitudes to paid work. traditional gender roles gender biases in books toys that do not reinforce gender stereotypes a science fiction story dealing with gender issues2[countable] males or females, considered as a group SYN sex: differences between the genders3a)[uncountable] the system in some languages of marking words such as nouns, adjectives, and pronouns as being masculine, feminine, or neuter b)[countable] a group such as feminine into which words are divided in this systemCOLLOCATIONSgender + NOUNa gender difference· Research has shown that there are gender differences in the way alcohol affects the brain.the gender gap (=a difference between men and women)· The gender gap was visible in the way men and women voted during the presidential elections.gender roles (=the positions of men and women in society)· It is a country where gender roles have remained largely unchanged.gender bias/inequality/discrimination (=when one gender is treated unfairly)· Her research investigates gender bias in the classroom.gender equality (=when men and women are treated in the same way)· Organizations have a duty to promote gender equality.gender relations (=the way in which men and women behave towards each other)· The best way to understand gender relations is to study children.a gender stereotype (=a fixed idea of what men or women are like)· The characters in the novel were criticized for being gender stereotypes.gender politics (=the way in which men and women compete with each other for power)· Much of the discussion of gender politics is rather simplistic.gender issues (=ideas and problems related to being male or female)· Businesses seem to pay more attention to gender issues in senior positions.gender identity (=whether someone is male or female)· Gender identity refers to our inner feeling of being masculine or feminine.