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What are the differences between sex segregation and racial segregation?

In the simplest terms:

a) There are no substantial innate differences between humans across race (apart from some population-driven tendencies for genetic medical conditions)

b) There are substantial innate differences between men and women regardless of race

c) There is a definite demonstrated history of aggression and violence of men against women, and social and economic vulnerability of women and the children in their care, across all races

Therefore women in this sense are considered a vulnerable class, and sex-based segregation is provided as a protective measure (sometimes called "positive discrimination").

(Disclaimer -- this is the reasoning of internal U.S. policy, and is not equivalent to punitive cultural sex segregation.)