Maybe you should read that whole article you cited? There's more than I'm quoting here, just a few quick examples, but that whole page is about how sexism affects women. You've really proven me right, thank you! Sexism is a type of prejudice and bigotry, specifically those against women.
(everything below is copied from your link)
It has been characterized as the "hatred of women" and "entrenched prejudice against women".
Psychologists Mary Crawford and Rhoda Unger define sexism as a form of prejudice held by individuals that encompasses "negative attitudes and values about women as a group."
Feminist author bell hooks defines sexism as a system of oppression that results in disadvantages for women.[18] Feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye defines sexism as an "attitudinal-conceptual-cognitive-orientational complex" of male supremacy, male chauvinism, and misogyny.
Suffrage and politics
Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst.
Gender has been used, at times, as a tool for discrimination against women in the political sphere. Women's suffrage was not achieved until 1893, when New Zealand was the first country to grant women the right to vote. Saudi Arabia was the most recent country, as of August 2015, to extend the right to vote to women in 2011.[65] Some Western countries allowed women the right to vote only relatively recently: Swiss women gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971,[66] and Appenzell Innerrhoden became the last canton to grant women the right to vote on local issues (in 1991, when it was forced to do so by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland).[67] French women were granted the right to vote in 1944.[68][69] In Greece, women obtained the right to vote in 1952.[70] In Liechtenstein, women obtained the right to vote in 1984, through the women's suffrage referendum of 1984.[71][72]
While almost every woman today has the right to vote, there is still progress to be made for women in politics. Studies have shown that in several democracies including Australia, Canada and the United States, women are still represented using gender stereotypes in the press.[73] Multiple authors have shown that gender differences in the media are less evident today than they used to be in the 1980s, but are nonetheless still present. Certain issues (e.g., education) are likely to be linked with female candidates, while other issues (e.g., taxes) are likely to be linked with male candidates.[73] In addition, there is more emphasis on female candidates' personal qualities, such as their appearance and their personality, as females are portrayed as emotional and dependent.[73]
Sexism in politics can also be shown in the imbalance of law making power between men and women. Lanyan Chen stated that men hold more political power than women, serving as the gatekeepers of policy making. It is possible that this leads to women's needs not being properly represented. In this sense, the inequality of law making power also causes the gender discrimination in politics.[74] The ratio of women to men in legislatures is used as a measure of gender equality in the UN created Gender Empowerment Measure and its newer incarnation the Gender Inequality Index.
In language
Sexism in language exists when language devalues members of a certain gender.[79] Sexist language, in many instances, promotes male superiority.[80] Sexism in language affects consciousness, perceptions of reality, encoding and transmitting cultural meanings and socialization.[79] Researchers have pointed to the semantic rule in operation in language of the male-as-norm.[81] This results in sexism as the male becomes the standard and those who are not male are relegated to the inferior.[81] Sexism in language is considered a form of indirect sexism, in that it is not always overt.[82]
Examples include:
(everything below is copied from your link)
It has been characterized as the "hatred of women" and "entrenched prejudice against women".
Psychologists Mary Crawford and Rhoda Unger define sexism as a form of prejudice held by individuals that encompasses "negative attitudes and values about women as a group."
Feminist author bell hooks defines sexism as a system of oppression that results in disadvantages for women.[18] Feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye defines sexism as an "attitudinal-conceptual-cognitive-orientational complex" of male supremacy, male chauvinism, and misogyny.
Suffrage and politics
Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst.
Gender has been used, at times, as a tool for discrimination against women in the political sphere. Women's suffrage was not achieved until 1893, when New Zealand was the first country to grant women the right to vote. Saudi Arabia was the most recent country, as of August 2015, to extend the right to vote to women in 2011.[65] Some Western countries allowed women the right to vote only relatively recently: Swiss women gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971,[66] and Appenzell Innerrhoden became the last canton to grant women the right to vote on local issues (in 1991, when it was forced to do so by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland).[67] French women were granted the right to vote in 1944.[68][69] In Greece, women obtained the right to vote in 1952.[70] In Liechtenstein, women obtained the right to vote in 1984, through the women's suffrage referendum of 1984.[71][72]
While almost every woman today has the right to vote, there is still progress to be made for women in politics. Studies have shown that in several democracies including Australia, Canada and the United States, women are still represented using gender stereotypes in the press.[73] Multiple authors have shown that gender differences in the media are less evident today than they used to be in the 1980s, but are nonetheless still present. Certain issues (e.g., education) are likely to be linked with female candidates, while other issues (e.g., taxes) are likely to be linked with male candidates.[73] In addition, there is more emphasis on female candidates' personal qualities, such as their appearance and their personality, as females are portrayed as emotional and dependent.[73]
Sexism in politics can also be shown in the imbalance of law making power between men and women. Lanyan Chen stated that men hold more political power than women, serving as the gatekeepers of policy making. It is possible that this leads to women's needs not being properly represented. In this sense, the inequality of law making power also causes the gender discrimination in politics.[74] The ratio of women to men in legislatures is used as a measure of gender equality in the UN created Gender Empowerment Measure and its newer incarnation the Gender Inequality Index.
In language
Sexism in language exists when language devalues members of a certain gender.[79] Sexist language, in many instances, promotes male superiority.[80] Sexism in language affects consciousness, perceptions of reality, encoding and transmitting cultural meanings and socialization.[79] Researchers have pointed to the semantic rule in operation in language of the male-as-norm.[81] This results in sexism as the male becomes the standard and those who are not male are relegated to the inferior.[81] Sexism in language is considered a form of indirect sexism, in that it is not always overt.[82]
Examples include:
- The use of generic masculine terms to reference a group of mixed gender, such as "mankind", "man" (referring to humanity), "guys", or "officers and men"
- The use of the singular masculine pronoun (he, his, him) as the default to refer to a person of unknown gender
- Terms ending in "-man" that may be performed by those of non-male genders, such as businessman, chairman, or policeman
- The use of unnecessary gender markers, such as "male nurse" implying that simply a "nurse" is by default assumed to be female.
