Nowadays, the term is most often used to refer to men’s attitude towards women.

Traditionally, rights to property and nationality passed through the male line, with the result that women's legal status was generally inferior to that of men: until the 20th century, women had no voting rights, limited rights to property, and were, in most respects, subject entirely to their fathers or husbands.

While the term “sexism” dates from the mid-1960s and came into frequent use after the rise of women’s liberation movements in 1968-1969. Feminists in Eastern countries have also appealed to the United Nations to enforce women's rights. In the West, discussion has shifted from legal rights towards attacking prevailing sexist attitudes in society. The women's and gays’ liberation movements which emerged particularly in Britain and the United States in the late 1960s also succeeded in raising public consciousness about sexism.

Linguists have pointed out that the English language is inherently sexist because

Depending on a research paper made by a Britain magazine—Turth, there are only 3% Britain women completely satisfied with their own figures and their three vital measurements, 91% women may feel depressed when they think over their thighs and bottoms. This magazine also make a research in a bank, the statistics show that most of female staves thought they were overweight and the number of female who thought like this was tenfold than male. Actually, half of the female staves were not fat.

Both of man and woman live in a same environment, but men don’t have such kind of perplexity as women. People always turn a blind eye to man’s beer belly but deride woman’s radish calf. If a man, especially a successful man, is famous by his fat figure, the measurement of his body also may be an allusion. Winston Churchill is such a precise example. Furthermore, woman’s requirement on man’s feature and figure is much lenient than man. Although now more and more beautiful men become new fashionable stars, you can ask young girls which kind of boy can become favorable boyfriend and you may find that girls will tell you appearance is not very important in eight or nine cases out of ten. According to the data, this Britain magazine found that 97% females felt unsatisfied with their own appearances, but 91% females felt satisfied with their companions’ appearances.

Otherwise, Cultural media such as television and film may help perpetuate sexism by presenting uncritically stereotypical images of men and women. For example, a television drama might present women only as housewives and mothers and depict men doing exciting work outside the home, thereby implying that men have no involvement in their homes and families and that women have no interest in the outside world.

In recent years, there have been initiatives to tackle sexism on an international level. For example, four United Nations Women's Conferences have been held, bringing together an international group of delegates to work towards the promotion of women's rights worldwide.

To take another example, an action film might feature women who are physically attractive but who lack believable characterization. Such films have been criticized demeaning women by presenting them as passive objects for the fantasies of male viewers.

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