Seksisme is vooroordeel of diskriminasie wat op 'n persoon se geslag of gender gebaseer is. Seksisme kan enigeen beïnvloed, maar dit raak veral vroue en meisies.[1] Dit is aan stereotipes en geslagsrolle gekoppel[2][3] en berus op die oortuiging dat een geslag intrinsiek beter as die ander is.[4] Uiterste seksisme sluit seksuele teistering, verkragting, en ander vorme van seksuele geweld in [5]. Geslagsdiskriminasie kan seksisme insluit, en is diskriminasie teenoor mense op grond van hul gender-identiteit[6] of geslagsverskille.[7] Geslagsdiskriminasie word veral in terme van werkplek-ongelykheid gedefinieer.
GENDER OR SEX DISCRIMINATION: This term refers to the types of gender bias that have a negative impact. The term has legal, as well as theoretical and psychological, definitions. Psychological consequences can be more readily inferred from the latter, but both definitions are of significance. Theoretically, gender discrimination has been described as (1) the unequal rewards that men and women receive in the workplace or academic environment because of their gender or sex difference (DiThomaso, 1989); (2) a process occurring in work or educational settings in which an individual is overtly or covertly limited access to an opportunity or a resource because of a sex or is given the opportunity or the resource reluctantly and may face harassment for picking it (Roeske & Pleck, 1983); or (3) both.