What do call it?

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Hi,1-What do you call a school where males and females are separated? A segregated school? 2-Can you use the same word you are about to give me to describe a wedding party?  in my culture wedding parties are made that way.3-What do you call the opposite? Such as; a X school, party or  X swimming pool.Please answer all my questions.Thank You.Osama

Khoff · Accepted Answer

1 -- Usually we would say "A girls' (or women's) school" or "A boys' (or men's) school," or, if you wanted a general term, "a single-*** school." If the boys and girls (or men and women) go to the same school but are in different classrooms, you would have to say something like "I went to a school where the students were separated according to gender" or "a school where the men and women are taught separately." At least in the U.S., "segregated" has such a strong history of referring to racial segregation that I would not use it for separation of men and women.

In some Orthodox Jewish synagogues, men and women sit in separate sections, and it would be referred to as "separate seating." If they sat together, it would be called "mixed seating."

2 - Since we (England and America) don't do this very often, we don't have a very efficient vocabulary to describe it. You would have to say something like "Men and women were separated at the wedding, according to the custom."

3. - American colleges used to be separated by ***. When the first colleges started teaching men and women together, they were called "co-educational" or "co-ed" schools. We still use the word "co-ed" to describe activites where men and women participate together, like "a co-ed softball team."

(In the 1940s or 1950s a female student might have been referred to as "a co-ed." but not today.)

Osama91 · Answer

Well, thanks alot Khoff. I totally appreciate it.

Osama

Khoff · Answer

Glad I could help.

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