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gendered

American  
[jen-derd] / ˈdʒɛn dərd /

adjective

  1. characteristic of, suited to, or biased toward one gender.

    gendered diapers.


Example Sentences

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"What's key about Winifred is that her experience with prejudice, both racial and gendered, is that she factored it into her own activism," says Springer.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Ironically, the solution to the male loneliness epidemic is to refrain from the gendered talk that frames the situation as “men vs. women.”

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2025

So gendered beliefs about what makes a good mom cannot be a legislative or legal strategy.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2025

The book is also invested in dating norms and gendered norms, and she dates women and men.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

And this highlights a theme that runs through almost every Soviet female soldier’s story of the Great Patriotic War: War is gendered, and it is not feminine.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein