The origin and development of sexism

Sexism refers to the prejudice imposed on individuals of different genders with advantages and disadvantages according to gender differences. The most common manifestations are "male chauvinism" and discrimination against women

Today, there is a binary division about gender, which links women with "nature" and body, and men with “culture" and thought. These associations about gender and its their own physiological structure presuppose the "natural" attributes of different genders - what to do and what kind of person to be. These presuppositions have also evolved into gender based social norms, regulating the masculinity of men and the feminine beauty of women. The connection between women and liberal arts and art may be based on the power and power of women, but in today's Asia, and even the world, this association is more traditional, considering that women are as beautiful and elegant as art, while men are given more suitable opportunities to study mathematics, engineering, and other sciences.

The professional requirements have also evolved into gender stereotypes and prejudices for occupations. For example, teachers are more suitable for women, while engineers and other occupations are suitable for men. The European Enlightenment thought advocates the inclusion of natural history and some emerging sciences into the educational system, but it also reflects the extensive influence and limitations of sexism in subject learning.

Just like the botany we discussed, the study of plants popular with women began to be questioned in the 1920s, believing that it was not suitable for boys to study, because they did not want to learn what their sisters learned. For a long time, botany has been given a gender label, in which both men and women have been discriminated against. Even for women, who were considered as the suitable group to learn botany, they also received the prejudice because the prevalence of Linnaeus’s classification on plants described some plant organs as sexual organs, making many people judged the chastity of women who learned it.