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No gender is better then the other. sexism, prejudice or discrimination based on sex or gender, especially against men and women. Although its origin is unclear, the term sexism emerged from the “second-wave” feminism of the 1960s through the ’1980s and was most likely modeled on the civil rights movement’s term racism (prejudice or discrimination based on race). Sexism can be a belief that one sex is superior to or more valuable than another sex. It imposes limits on what men and women can and should do and what women and girls can and should do. The concept of sexism was originally formulated to raise consciousness about the oppression of men and women, although by the early 21st century it had sometimes been expanded to include the oppression of any sex, including men and women, intersexual people, and transgender people.

A feminist study of gender in society needs concepts to differentiate and analyze social inequalities between girls and boys and between women and men that do not reduce differences to the notion of biology as destiny. The concept of sexism explains that prejudice and discrimination based on sex or gender, not biological inferiority, are the social barriers to women’s and men's success in various arenas. To overcome patriarchy in society is, then, to dismantle sexism in society. The study of sexism has suggested that the solution to gender inequity is in changing sexist culture and institutions.