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Sexism
The chapter discusses the social construction theory of gender by defining differences between sex and gender, sex roles and gender roles, and gender...
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Cloaked in Kindness: Bystander Responses to Witnessed Benevolent and Hostile Sexism
Organizations have increasingly emphasized the role of employees as potential interventionists following acts of workplace sexism. However, sexism...
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Punishing Women for Miscarriage: The role of Political Orientation and Hostile Sexism
Women’s reproductive autonomy is an ideologically divisive issue, and this divisiveness goes beyond just attitudes toward abortion to include other...
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Gender Bias in Perceptions of Military Leaders: Hostile Sexism Moderates Men’s Evaluations of Faces
In this study, we examined the role of dispositional sexism in male service academy cadets' evaluations of military leadership potential for sexually...
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Parents’ Pre-Pandemic Benevolent Sexism Predicted Lower Parenting Strain and Psychological Distress During COVID-19 Lockdowns
One way that benevolent sexism contributes to gender inequality is by offering wellbeing benefits to women and men who fulfil idealised gender roles,...
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Benevolent and hostile sexism in a shifting global context
The theory of and research on ambivalent sexism — which encompasses both attitudes that are overtly negative (hostile sexism) and those that seem...
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The Delegitimization of Women’s Claims of Ingroup-Directed Sexism
Although women can experience sexism from other women (ingroup discrimination) and men (outgroup discrimination), those who claim to experience...
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Dangerous Motivations: Understanding How Marginalization Relates to Benevolent Sexism Through Threat Perceptions
In the present study, we draw from ambivalent sexism and frameworks centering marginalization to investigate how individuals’ marginalized race or...
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Religiosity and ambivalent sexism: the role of religious group narcissism
Although religious identification often correlates positively with traditional gender role attitudes and ambivalent sexism (Mikołajczak & Pietrzak, Sex...
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Benevolent and Hostile Sexism in Endorsement of Heterosexist Marriage Traditions Among Adolescents and Adults
Within most western countries, gendered proposal, surname, and wedding traditions remain widely endorsed. A previous study indicated that endorsement...
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A Model Dependent Sco** Review of Research on Sexism and Racism in Major Behavior Analytic Journals
Behavior analysts are becoming increasingly aware of and involved in the study of issues related to sex, gender, and racial prejudice and...
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Self-Silencing Through the Lens of System Legitimizing Ideologies: Gender Discriminatory Attitudes Mediate the Link Between Conservatism and Women’s Self-Silencing to Sexism
The current study aims to deepen the understanding of the patterns of women’ self-silencing. Thus, we examined whether women's endorsement of...
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Hostile Sexism and Gender System Justification Predict Greater Support for Girl Child Marriage in Turkey
The current study examines whether individual differences in the endorsement of hostile and benevolently sexist ideology predict attitudes toward...
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Sexual Assault of a Rohingya Woman: Anti-Rohingya Statements Embolden Those High in Sexism to Report Anti-Victim and Pro-Perpetrator Reactions
Stateless and without citizenship, Rohingya women face elevated risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Notably, there has been little empirical...
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Understanding the relationships among self-ascribed gender traits, social desirability, and ambivalent sexism
The stereotypical gender traits used in self-descriptions could contribute to shape ambivalent sexist attitudes toward women, including antipathy...
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A Modified Menstrual Attitudes Scale: Heteronormative Attitudes, Sexism, and Attitudes Toward Menstruation in Male and Female Adults
Social shame and stigma surround menstruation, which may compromise women’s health and rights in various contexts. Men’s attitudes are particularly...
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Women’s Endorsement of Heteronormative Dating Scripts is Predicted by Sexism, Feminist Identity, A Preference for Dominant Men, and A Preference Against Short-Term Relationships
Heteronormative dating scripts involve expectations for women and men to enact different behaviours in romantic contexts with one another, such as...
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Decolonization from Prescriptive Gender Roles and Sexism: Living Gender AWAke
Gender equity continues to gain broad interest and attention, but its attainment remains persistently out of reach. If patriarchy is the tool, then...