Gender_Stratification

Gender Stratification Racism refers to beliefs, practices, and institutions that negatively discriminate against people based on their perceived or ascribed race. Sometimes the term is also used to describe the belief that race is the primary determinant of human capacities, or that individuals should be treated differently based on their ascribed race. There is a growing, but controversial, tendency to state that racism is a system of oppression that combines racist beliefs – whether they be explicit, tacit or unconscious – with the power to have a negative impact on those discriminated against on a societal level. Racism may be expressed individually and consciously, through explicit thoughts, feelings, or acts, or socially and unconsciously, through institutions that promote inequalities among "races". Sexism is negative discrimination against people based on their assumed or presumed sexual identity. use "sex" to refer to the biological division into male and female, and "gender" to refer to gender roles assigned to people on the basis of their apparent sex and/or other contingent factors. Gender is the perceived masculinity or femininity of a person or characteristic. A person's aggregate gender is complex, encompassing countless characteristics of appearance, speech, movement and more. Ethnicity is the cultural characteristics that connect a particular group gender, race, group, stratification, people, based, social, discrimination, characteristics, biological, sex, movement, men, feminism, ethnicity, ethnic, equal, differences, cultural, against, women, societies, socially, shared, roles, rights, prejudice, opportunities, distinction, democracy, basis, varies, valued, treatment, through, societal