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Jessica Hoang  Professor Dunigan  English 100  14 th May 2018  Change Sexism is defined as discrimination or prejudice based on one’s gender and its traditional stereotypes. It could also be seen as a belief that one sex is more important than the other. This belief places restrictions on what males and females can and should do. It’s level of severity varies in different cases, regardless, it still parallels the unacceptable concept of inequality. Sexism can affect anyone at any time, however, prior to the 21 st century, this idea was created as a way to shine light on the oppression that women and girls, especially, were facing at the time. There are many factors in which contribute to the unequal treatment of certain individuals based on their gender; some are from the differences of the social constructed roles in society while others come from biological differences.These factor are shown through different genres of literature all throughout history. The marginalization of wom