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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Unfair treatment of someone because of their gender.
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Paper 2
Revise: Gender Prejudice and DiscriminationGender discrimination means treating someone unfairly because of their gender. The important distinction is between an attitude and treatment: prejudice can lead to discrimination, although an unfair belief does not always become an action.
Paper 1
Distinguish an attitude from an action: gender prejudice is prejudging someone; gender discrimination is treating them unfairly.
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Gender prejudice is an unfair judgement based on gender, whereas gender discrimination is unfair treatment based on it. For example, assuming that a woman cannot understand religious teachings as well as a man is prejudice; refusing to let her teach simply because of that assumption would be discrimination.