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Gender discrimination is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of sex or gender identity. Socially, sexual differences have been used to justify societies in which one sex or the other has been restricted to significantly inferior and secondary roles. While there are non-physical differences between men and women (gender roles are learned, not genetic), unfair discrimination usually follows the gender stereotyping held by a society and is used to enforce the roles held by that society as acceptable.

Table of sex-based violence throughout the life cycle

Pre-Birth

Sex selective abortion; battering during pregnancy (emotional and physical effects on the woman; effects on birth outcome); coerced pregnancy; mass rape in war

Infancy

Sex based infanticide; emotional and physical abuse; differential access to food and medical care

Girlhood

Child marriage; genital mutilation; sexual abuse by strangers and family members; differential access to food and medical care; child prostitution

Adolescence

Dating and courtship violence; economically coerced sex; sexual abuse in the workplace; rape; sexual harassment; forced prostitution

Reproductive Age

Rape; dowry abuse and murders; partner homicide; psychological abuse; sexual abuse; sexual harassment; forced abortion

Elderly

Abuse of widows; elder abuse affects mostly women

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