The phrase "gender oppression" refers to a situation where one gender is unfairly treated or controlled by another. It can involve unequal opportunities, discrimination, or harmful stereotypes based on a person's gender. Full definition
They travel with her in the landscape of Calvin's doctrine and assess whether his dramatic account can make sense of their specific experiences of gender oppression and also convey an empowering grace that heals their brokenness. (religion-online.org)
This context suggests the open, public - opinion poll mechanics of Justicia y Democracia are a logical extension of Mayer's explicitly feminist 1978 performance El tendedero / the Clothesline (featured at the Hammer) in which hundreds of local women aired frustrations with gender oppression in public, on note cards affixed with clothespins to a laundry line. (brooklynrail.org)
Jennifer Merin: Switzerland's entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar is a compelling political drama set in 1971 in a quaint rural village where Nora (Marie Leuenberger), a conventional housewife and mother, facing gender oppression on every front, champions a burgeoning suffragette movement that challenges political and religious leaders who cited the Divine Order as reason to keep women in their place. (awfj.org)