Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived social group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived evaluation or classification of another perso
Mr. Prejudice, painted by Horace Pippin in 1943, depicts a personal view of race relations in the United States.
Suffragette Dora Thewlis was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in 1914 for campaigning for women's right to vote.
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to gender roles and stereotypes, and may include
Prejudice
…Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to…
Sati, or self-immolation by widows, was prevalent in Hindu society until the early 19th century.
"The Hammer of Witches which destroyeth Witches and their heresy as with a two-edged sword". Title page of the seventh Cologne edition of the Malleus Maleficarum, 1520, from the University of Sydney Library.
Anti-dowry poster in Bangalore, India. According to Amnesty International, "[T]he ongoing reality of dowry-related violence is an example of what can happen when women are treated as property."