When you go out, or now, get on Zoom or video call, when you know photographs will be clicked, you take a double-take at your outfit, making sure the outfit doesn’t add any extra kilos or the colour doesn’t wash you out. Now, the next time you upload a photograph, you make sure that it’s …
‘Women are bad drivers’. Firstly, untrue. Secondly, this is exactly what casual sexism is. Discriminating against women because of their sex based on prejudice or stereotypical thinking. While sometimes sexism can be explicit like female foeticide or rape, more subtle discrimination is casual sexism. There is an immense lack of education, logic and understanding when …