Gina Masequesmay
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Professor of Asian American Studies, California State University at Northridge. Her contributions to SAGE Publications’s Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2009) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
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Sexism, prejudice or discrimination based on sex or gender, especially against women and girls. Although its origin is unclear, the term sexism emerged from the “second-wave” feminism of the 1960s through ’80s and was most likely modeled on the civil rights movement’s term racism (prejudice or…
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