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Male Chauvinism
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Male Chauvinism
The belief that men are superior to women. Most societies deal (or have dealt) with male chauvinism in some form or other. In business, male chauvinism may express itself in bias toward hiring or promoting men. Laws exist in many jurisdictions to limit or eliminate male chauvinism in business.


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Something akin to the sword of Damocles still hangs over a very large community in central Middlesbrough, and it is seemingly only political chauvinism and the inability to say we got it wrong that keeps this programme barely spluttering along and going nowhere.
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And while many may underline its importance in maintaining a fragile identity in a small island half occupied by Turkey and buffeted by globalisation, the effect has been to breed a blanket chauvinism and intolerance, initially directed across the Green Line and now at the tens of thousands of foreigners living on the island, especially those of another race.
 
 
 
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