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chauvinism
(redirected from male chauvinism)

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Encouraged by Moholy-Nagy she joined the metal workshop, being the only woman there, and soon rose to prominence despite the male chauvinism of her colleagues, becoming acting director.
Moreover (and this is not male chauvinism asserting itself) the male physique, just as in sports, enables men to be quantitatively superior in sheer physical strength.
In time, that is, the aloofness of a state committed to the principle of "groups" and "own affairs" would produce a climate of inwardness conducive to Africanist reform of anachronistic custom and tradition, enabling Galilee's move to address deep-rooted male chauvinism, for example, by inculcating an ethos of sacrosanct virginity amongst Nazarite youth, female and male, as prelude to a church-endogamous marriage rule.
 
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