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  2. Societal attitudes towards women - Wikipedia

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    Social attitudes towards women vary as greatly as the members of society themselves. From culture to culture, perceptions about women and related gender expectations differ greatly. In recent years, there has been a great shift in attitudes towards women globally as society critically examines the role that women should play, and the value that ...

  3. Gynophobia - Wikipedia

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    Gynophobia should not generally be confused with misogyny, the hatred, contempt for and prejudice against women, [2] [3] although some may use the terms interchangeably, in reference to the social, rather than pathological aspect of negative attitudes towards women. [4] The antonym of misogyny is philogyny, the love, respect for and admiration ...

  4. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    Gender stereotypes influence traditional feminine occupations, resulting in microaggression toward women who break traditional gender roles. [62] These stereotypes include that women have a caring nature, have skill at household-related work, have greater manual dexterity than men, are more honest than men, and have a more attractive physical ...

  5. Gender role - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S., single men are outnumbered by single women at a ratio of 100 single women to 86 single men, [84] though never-married men over the age of 15 outnumber women by a 5:4 ratio (33.9% to 27.3%) according to the 2006 U.S. Census American Community Survey. The results are varied between age groups, with 118 single men per 100 single women ...

  6. Women-are-wonderful effect - Wikipedia

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    It revealed that among men who engaged more in sexual activity, the more positive their attitude towards sex, the larger their bias towards women. A greater interest in and liking of sex may promote automatic preference for the out-group of women among men, although both women and men with sexual experience expressed greater liking for the ...

  7. Friedrich Nietzsche's views on women - Wikipedia

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    Frances Nesbitt Oppel interprets Nietzsche's attitude towards women as part of a rhetorical strategy. ...Nietzsche's apparent misogyny is part of his overall strategy to demonstrate that our attitudes toward sex-gender are thoroughly cultural, are often destructive of our own potential as individuals and as a species, and may be changed.

  8. Woman - Wikipedia

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    Most women are cisgender, meaning their female sex assignment at birth corresponds with their female gender identity. Some women are transgender, meaning they were assigned male at birth. [6] Trans women may experience gender dysphoria, the distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their sex assigned at ...

  9. Philogyny - Wikipedia

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    Philogyny is not to be confused with gynephilia, which is sexual attraction to women or femininity. Philogyny is love of, admiration for, or fondness (Impartiality) for women or girls. It is a form of philanthropy and philosophy that empowers and celebrates women at an equal status as men, thus dismantling the social roles of patriarchy and ...