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Extended Essay: Prejudice and Discrimination AO1.a) One example of gender discrimination would be with women in Christianity. Women have traditionally, in Christianity, been seen as inferior to men. Eve was said to be the temptress to Adam in the second Genesis story and was also created as a partner to Adam from one of his ribs, which automatically shows that women come from men, and so in a way men are better. Other Christians, such as St Augustine, even felt that women used their sexuality to distract men from God, which was obviously a sexist idea. These old fashioned ideas even resulted in; women having their human status questioned (at the Council of Macon in 564), the spiritual separation of the sexes in monasteries and convents and in women not being allowed ordination or to take authority in worship. This is a clear act of gender discrimination against women, as they are...

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