0 a rule or standard of good behaviour that, unfairly, some people are expected to follow or achieve but other people are not: --
1 the habit of treating one group differently than another when both groups should be treated the same --
The double standard was reinforced, as was the desire in men to have exclusive access to women, often achieved both inside and outside marriage by violence.
Why is there this speciesist double standard?
The double standard of ageing.
Double standard of evaluating results.
The double standard of aging.
Beside the intrinsic interest of studying the mechanism of social transmission of information within a species, the problem with this argument is the double standard it sets.
Hence, we would be guilty of employing a double standard were we to require of nonstandard practices that they enjoy discursive redemption.
One fact that became clear from the interviews conducted during the survey was that the double standard was still very much in operation.