5 sentences with “sexist”

Ironically, although Social Darwinism provided a pseudo-scientific basis for racist and sexist cultural assumptions, these notions of race and culture also fed the fear of degeneration mentioned above.

However, the problem for women in the post-war period was widespread discontent and dissatisfaction with the social role they were forced to play, along with overtly sexist laws and oppressive cultural codes.

In short, while the first wave feminist movement had succeeded in winning key legal battles, a vast network of sexist laws and cultural codes ensured that women remained in precisely the "secondary" position identified by Beauvoir.

On the left, however, both liberal and socialist politicians were largely supportive of women's suffrage - in theory. In practice, however, politicians on the left (prey to even more sexist stereotypes) feared that women would vote for traditional conservatives because women "naturally" craved the comfort and protection of tradition.

Most of the women who joined the new feminist movement were inspired by the broader anti-establishment counterculture described above, but they came to feminism in part because most male "rebels" were as sexist and repressive as the conservative politicians they detested (for example, women at meetings of self-proclaimed revolutionaries were expected to do the dishes and clean up after the men).