Sex segregation
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"We landed at Galata. I immediately remarked the bustle on the quays, and the throng of porters, merchants, and seamen, the latter announcing by the different colour of their complexions, by the diversity of their languages, and of their dress, by their robes, their hats, their caps, their turbans, that they had come from every part of Europe and Asia to inhabit this frontier of two worlds. The almost total absence of women, the want of wheel carriages, and the multitude of dogs without masters, were three distinguishing characteristics that first struck me m the interior of this extraordinary city." --Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem (1811) by Chateaubriand |
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Sex segregation is the physical, legal, and cultural separation of people according to their biological sex. This is distinct from gender segregation, which is the separation of people according to social constructions of gender.
In certain circumstances, sex segregation is controversial. Some critics contend that it is a violation of capabilities and human rights and can create economic inefficiencies, while some supporters argue that it is central to certain religious laws and social and cultural histories and traditions.
See also
- Gender apartheid
- Gender identity
- Gender inequality
- Gender polarization
- Gender role
- Men's spaces
- Athos, a Greek peninsula where women are not allowed
- Okinoshima, a Japanese island where women are not allowed
- Occupational inequality
- Occupational sexism
- Separate spheres
- Separatist feminism
- Sex differences in humans
- Sex segregation in Iran
- Sexism
- Women and children first
- Women-only space