Feminization most commonly refers to:
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Feminization (sociology)
In sociology, feminization is the shift in gender roles and sex roles in a society, group, or organization towards a focus upon the feminine. It can also mean the incorporation of women into a group or a profession that was once dominated by men. ...
, a perceived societal shift of gender roles toward the characteristically "female"
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Feminization (biology)
In biology and medicine, feminization is the development in an organism of physical characteristics that are usually unique to the females of the species. This may represent a normal developmental process, contributing to sexual differentiation. ...
, the hormonally induced development of female sexual characteristics
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Feminization (sexual activity)
Feminization or feminisation, sometimes forced feminization (shortened to forcefem or forced femme), and also known as sissification, is a practice in dominance and submission or kink (sexual), kink subcultures, involving reversal of gender roles ...
, a sexual or lifestyle practice where a person assumes a female role
Feminization may also refer to:
Health care
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Facial feminization, a set of reconstructive surgical procedures that alter typically male facial features to bring them closer in shape and size to typical female facial features
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Feminizing hormone therapy
Feminizing hormone therapy, also known as transfeminine hormone therapy, is a form of Transgender_health_care#Gender-affirming_care , gender-affirming care and a gender-affirming hormone therapy , gender-affirming hormone therapy to change t ...
, a type of hormone therapy and sex reassignment therapy to change secondary sex characteristics
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Gender-affirming surgery (male-to-female), surgical procedures to provide physical traits more comfortable and affirming to an individual's gender identity
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Voice feminization, the desired goal of changing a perceived male sounding voice to a perceived female sounding voice
Trends
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Feminization of language, the process of making a word or name female
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Feminization of migration, a trend where a higher rate of women migrate to labor or marriage
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Feminization of poverty
Feminization of poverty refers to a trend of increasing economic inequality, inequality in living standards between men and women due to the widening gender pay gap, gender gap in poverty. This phenomenon largely links to how women and children ar ...
, a phenomenon in which women represent disproportionate percentages of the world's poor
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Feminisation of the workplace
The feminization of the workplace is the Feminization (sociology), feminization, or the shift in gender roles and sex roles and the incorporation of women into a group or a profession once dominated by men, as it relates to the workplace. It is ...
, the trend towards greater employment of women, and of men willing and able to operate with these more 'feminine' modes of interaction
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Feminization of agriculture In feminist economics, the feminization of agriculture refers to the measurable increase of women's participation in the agricultural sector, particularly in the developing world.Deere, 2009 p. 99 The phenomenon started during the 1960s with increa ...
, the measurable increase of women's participation in agriculture
See also
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Feminine
Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and Gender roles, roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as Social construction of gender, socially constructed, and there is also s ...
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