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femininities

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Different notions of what it means to be a woman, including patterns of conduct linked to a women’s assumed place in a given set of gender roles and relations. 

See also: masculinities

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Ryšiai

Related term:
gender, gender socialisation
Broader term:
gender socialisation
Narrower term:
gender identity
URI: 
https://eige.europa.eu/taxonomy/term/1129?lang=en
Filed under: 
Social affairs
Gender norms
Sex, gender and sexuality
Sex and Gender

 

The concepts and definitions found in this glossary were published in 2016, and some may be out-of-date. EIGE is currently looking into which terms may need to be updated in the future.