The related adjective is androcentric, while the practice of placing the feminine point of view at the center is gynocentric.
[4] The term androcentrism was introduced by Lester Frank Ward in his book Pure Sociology.
[7] After Charlotte Perkins Gilman heard him in a scientific debate, herself acknowledged his contribution in the preface to the first edition of her book, The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture,[8] published in 1911.
Androcentrism was a consequence of human development in society, "based on an irrational glorification of the trivial male fertilizing function, had “resulted in arresting the development of half the world.”[9] Therefore, androcentrism can be understood as a societal fixation on masculinity from which all things originate.
[10] She used these ideas in her essay The Man-Made World and her fictional book Herland,[11] where an isolated group of women still remain in a gynecological society.
In Herland, this community based on feminine principles is perfectly harmonious, rather than the current conflict-ridden androcentric society.
To this day, clinical studies are frequently confirmed for both sexes even though only men have participated and the female body is often not considered in animal tests, even when "women diseases" are concerned.
[17] Since male symptoms are much more prominent, women are symptomatically under- and misdiagnosed, and have for example a 50% increased risk to die from a heart attack.
they reported that less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections of the Met Museum were women, but 85% of the nudes were female.
In 2007, Jerry Saltz (journalist from the New York Times) criticized the Museum of Modern Art for undervaluing work by female artists.
Philosophy scholar Jennifer Saul argues that the use of male generic language marginalizes women, intersex, and non-binary people in society.
Hamilton asserted that this may be due to the fact that males have grown up being able to think more easily than females of "any person" as generic "he," since "he" applies to them.
[25][26] Feminist anthropologist Sally Slocum argues that there has been a longstanding male bias in anthropological thought as evidenced by terminology used when referring to society, culture, and humankind.