attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles: the underlying sexism in the marketing of dolls to girls and trucks to boys; Her husband saw their home life through a lens of sexism, and never once offered to help with the housework or the kids.

discrimination or devaluation based on a person's sex or gender, as in restricted job opportunities, especially such discrimination directed against women: The investigation found that women face a culture of hostility and sexism.

ingrained and institutionalized prejudice against women: The idea that women are inferior to men is sexism at its purest.