Sentences with phrase «of benevolent sexism»

Similarly, Kilianski and Rudman (1998) asked the question «Do women approve of benevolent sexism?»

The idea of benevolent sexism is essentially that while trying to appear overly kind or generous, someone actually views the other person as incapable or incompetent because of their gender.

Not exact matches

Two components of both hostile and benevolent sexism — dehumanization and traditional gender roles — especially contribute to unhealthy attitudes surrounding rape and rape victims.

[Benevolent sexism] did relate to rape myth acceptance in cases of acquaintance rape (Abrams et al., 2003), which accounts for about two thirds of all rapes committed (U.S. Department of Justice, 2005; RAINN 2012).

They focused on two forms of sexism (hostile, and benevolent) and how feelings of entitlement might predict those roles differently for men and women.

Study 3 (N = 79) demonstrates that benevolent sexism has more pernicious effects when it is expressed by someone with whom women expect to collaborate than when no collaboration is expected with the source of sexism.

Hart and his co-authors, Jacqueline Hung» 11, a former student of Hart's, and psychology professors Peter Glick of Lawrence University and Rachel Dinero of Cazenovia College, surveyed more than 400 heterosexual men to gauge their responses to questions about their attachment style, hostile and benevolent sexism, and views on romance.

(Extra credit: +2 points to anyone who caught the benevolent sexism in the prior paragraph — and another +2 points to anyone who appreciated my use of Style's «point system.»)

Benevolent but not hostile sexism uniquely predicted more negative views of women who engage in premarital sex once other variables were controlled.

They coined the phrase «benevolent sexism» to describe a more subtle type of interactions that reinforce the stereotype that men have power.

As mentioned earlier, although the association between hostile and benevolent sexism and gender stereotypes in romantic relationships — specifically male dominance and male assertiveness factors — is demonstrated in some studies (e.g., Sakallı & Curun, 2001), no research has yet investigated the potential mediating effect of ambivalent sexism on sex role orientation and gender stereotypes.

and demonstrated that many women find benevolent sexist males more favorable than neutral males in terms of sexism.

Moreover, the present study offers empirical information about the association of hostile and benevolent sexism in close relationships.

Therefore, since our participants were mostly female, they might also agree with benevolent sexism without being aware of its hostile component and relationship with male dominance.

The present study examined the mediating effects of ambivalent sexism (hostile and benevolent) in the relationship between sex role orientation (masculinity and femininity) and gender stereotypes (dominance and assertiveness) in college students.

Despite these limitations, this study is the first to investigate the mediating effect of ambivalent sexism (hostile and benevolent) between sex role orientation (masculine and feminine) and gender stereotypes (dominance and assertiveness) in romantic relationships.

Common beliefs, such as viewing women as incompetent, are the underpinnings of both hostile and benevolent sexism.

Controlling for the effects of age, relationship experience predicted increased hostile sexism in girls and increased benevolent sexism in boys.

In contrast, benevolent sexism predicted more positive views of a primary caregiving mother (Gaunt 2013b).

Specifically, hostile sexism predicted respondents» negative judgments of a married mother who was the main breadwinner for her family, and benevolent attitudes toward men predicted respondents» negative judgments of a primary caregiving father.