1Psychology Sociology The stereotypical categorization of people, or their appearance or behaviour, according to conventional perceptions of what is typical of each sex.
〔心理，社会学〕按性别分类，性别角色分派
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These differences become reified through sex typing of jobs and the enactment of work and family structures.
Labour market theories that stress segmentation assume a fairly rigid sex typing of occupations and hence a disassociation between employment and pay trends in the separate male and female labour markets.
The sex typing of jobs and the accompanying systems of occupational segregation can be seen to constitute one element in the interlocking ‘Gender Order’ which can have the perverse effect of excluding groups of men from paid employment.
Biller also found that father absence adversely affected the sex role identification and sex typing of male children.
2Biology The process of determining the sex of a person or other organism, especially in difficult cases where special tests are necessary.
〔生〕（尤指在难以区分、需经特别测试的）性别确定
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Are these methods of sex typing any more or less enlightened than ours in the late twentieth century, where we depend on penile function in males and reproductive function in females?
Derivatives
sex-typed
adjective
But now this sex-typed judgment goes a step further.
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Once each child reached age 3 1 / 2, a primary caregiver completed the Pre-School Activities Inventory, which assesses the child's engagement in various sex-typed behaviors, such as play with certain toys, games and activities.
Even college students spend their time in sex-typed activities.
Gender-role socialization theories hold that social environments, from the level of culture down to individual family and peer relationships, teach men and women to display distinct sex-typed behaviors and attitudes.
Highly feminist therapists maintained gender-flexible expectations of individuals whereas therapists who received nonfeminist scores endorsed sex-typed expectations and value prescriptions.
Definition of sex typing in US English:
sex typing
nounsɛks taɪpɪŋ
1Sociology Psychology The stereotypical categorization of people, or their appearance or behavior, according to conventional perceptions of what is typical of each sex.
〔心理，社会学〕按性别分类，性别角色分派
Example sentencesExamples
These differences become reified through sex typing of jobs and the enactment of work and family structures.
The sex typing of jobs and the accompanying systems of occupational segregation can be seen to constitute one element in the interlocking ‘Gender Order’ which can have the perverse effect of excluding groups of men from paid employment.
Biller also found that father absence adversely affected the sex role identification and sex typing of male children.
Labour market theories that stress segmentation assume a fairly rigid sex typing of occupations and hence a disassociation between employment and pay trends in the separate male and female labour markets.
2Biology The process of determining the sex of a person or other organism, especially in difficult cases where special tests are necessary.
〔生〕（尤指在难以区分、需经特别测试的）性别确定
Example sentencesExamples
Are these methods of sex typing any more or less enlightened than ours in the late twentieth century, where we depend on penile function in males and reproductive function in females?