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gender sensitivity


Gender sensitivity refers to the recognition of the ways in which assumptions, prejudice, or perceptions associated with different genders in a given cultural and social context are visible in everyda [..]
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gender consciousness


Sometimes used as a synonym for gender sensitivity.
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femininity


Womanliness. Traits, things, skills, and qualities typically associated with women. These change in time and are culture-specific. For instance, things like nurture, dolls, makeup, skirts, and the col [..]
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masculinity


Manliness, associated with men. The opposite of femininity. In our culture things described as masculine are cars, technology, the color blue, and strength, for example. Masculinity and masculine trai [..]
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intersex


Intersex is a general term for various congenital conditions where a child’s physical sex characteristics cannot be defined as belonging unambiguously to a girl or a boy. An intersex condition can be [..]
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multiculturalism


The word multiculturalism is generally used to refer to the current situation where immigration to Finland has been growing steadily during the past decades. Often the discussion is also connected to [..]
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non-binary gender identity


A person who has a non-binary gender identity does not identify as unambiguously male or female. Non-binary people can consider themselves both male and female – or neither of the two. For some people [..]
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rainbow family


Refers to a family with children where one or more of the parents belong in a sexual or gender minority. Rainbow families come in all forms: they can be single-parent families, families with two paren [..]
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stereotype


Stereotypes are rigid conceptions of different groups of people and their characteristics, often based on generalizations and oversimplifications. Even though generalizations are needed in order to fa [..]
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gender diversity


Instead of the male-female or girl-boy binary, gender can be understood as a spectrum where extreme masculinity is at one end and extreme femininity at the other. Regardless of the sex assigned to us [..]
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