It depends what is meant by the word "sexism", which to the public usually means something like "discrimination based on sex", but to those in the know refers t

It depends what is meant by the word "sexism", which to the public usually means something like "discrimination based on sex", but to those in the know refers to some putative destructive ideology, or even "absence of sufficiently favorable conditions for women". Hence their use of peculiar monikers such as "reverse sexism" to mean discrimination against men, rather than simply "sexism". An illustrative example of this attitude is in the UN's Gender Inequality Index, where, in factors in which women are advantaged (such as lifespan), larger gaps push the figure down rather than up (so larger gaps are considered as more "equal" in those areas that already favor women).