| A | B |
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| 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. |
| extradomestic | Outside the home; within or pertaining to the public domain. |
| gender roles | The tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex. |
| gender stereotypes | Oversimplified but strongly held ideas about the characteristics of males and females. |
| 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. |
| matrifocal | Mother-centered; often refers to a household with no resident husband-father. |
| patriarchy | Political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status, including basic human rights. |
| patrilineal-patrilocal complex | An interrelated constellation of patrilineality, patrilocality, warfare, and male supremacy. |
| sexual dimorphism | Marked differences in male and female biology besides the contrasts in breasts and genitals. |
| 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. |
