Gender apartheid
Socio-economic, physical, legal, and cultural discrimination based on gender / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gender apartheid (also called sexual apartheid[1][lower-alpha 1] or sex apartheid) is the economic and social sexual discrimination against individuals because of their gender or sex. It is a system enforced by using either physical or legal practices to relegate individuals to subordinate positions.[4] Feminist scholar Phyllis Chesler, professor of psychology and women's studies, defines the phenomenon as "practices which condemn girls and women to a separate and subordinate sub-existence and which turn boys and men into the permanent guardians of their female relatives' chastity".[5] Instances of gender apartheid lead not only to the social and economic disempowerment of individuals, but can also result in severe physical harm.[6]