| domestic-public dichotomy | Contrast between women's role in the home and men's role in public life, with a corresponding social devaluation of women's work and worth.
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| extradomestic | Outside the home; within or pertaining to the public domain.
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| gender roles | The tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex.
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| gender stereotypes | Oversimplified but strongly held ideas about the characteristics of males and females.
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| gender stratification | Unequal distribution of rewards (socially valued resources, power, prestige, and personal freedom) between men and women, reflecting their different positions in a social hierarchy.
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| matriarchy | A society ruled by women; unknown to ethnography.
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| matrifocal | Mother-centered; often refers to a household with no resident husband-father.
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| patriarchy | Political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status, including basic human rights.
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| patrilineal-patrilocal complex | An interrelated constellation of patrilineality, patrilocality, warfare, and male supremacy.
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| sexual dimorphism | Marked differences in male and female biology besides the contrasts in breasts and genitals.
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| sexual orientation | A person's habitual sexual attraction to, and activities with: persons of the opposite sex, heterosexuality, the same sex, homosexuality, or both sexes, bisexuality.
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