Gender apartheid
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The term gender apartheid (also called sexual apartheid or sex apartheid) refers to the economic and social sexual discrimination against women. It is a system enforced by using either physical or legal practices to relegate women to subordinate positions.
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See also
- Gender segregation
- Women-only space
- Men's spaces
- Athos, a Greek peninsula where women are not allowed
- Okinoshima, a Japanese island where women are not allowed
- Femicide
- Gender equality
- Sex segregation
- Sexism
- Female genital mutilation
- Hegemonic masculinity
- Violence against women
- Misogyny
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- Global Gender Gap Report
- Separatist feminism
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