Sentences with phrase «subtle sexism»

In her new book of feminist advice for women in the workplace, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the first woman on the social networking giant's board, acknowledges what many are afraid to admit publicly: «Women face real obstacles in the professional world, including blatant and subtle sexism, discrimination and sexual harassment.»

Barry paints a true - to - life world of political aides — from the subtle sexism Lydia faces to the long, stress - filled hours.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

These are the ways we fight the more subtle sexism in science.

There is growing recognition that a negative or «chilly» workplace climate — with regards to overt or subtle sexism, stereotype threat (Smith et al. 2015), gender bias and discrimination — has affected the success of women faculty in science (Settles et al. 2006; Clancy et al. 2014).

She seems to broaden this comment out to apply to women more generally — you know, those not regularly being dealt death threats, but those rather being victims of subtle sexism day in and day out.

Not exact matches

So what subtle forms of sexism do women still face?

According to Patrick, the sexism she's dealt with throughout her career hasn't been overt — it's a subtle style that's more difficult to pick up on.

So many movies now shout their message loud and clear, but this one is more subtle about it, and you can watch as just another action movie about becoming a soldier, but you'll come out wiser or at least more prone to looking at sexism and feminism in a new way.

His swagger as Commander in Chief was a subtle mix of Clinton — with his charm and overall look — and a little Ford — with his brashness and propensity for sexism.

Some sort of subtle comment on sexism in games?

We have carefully analyzed your fighting games and a couple of your volleyball / mini-games games, and we've found many subtle but real examples of sexism in your products.

There are subtle things like someone will use a really patronising tone with you, and then there's the blatant sexism — like I once got asked about my family plans in an interview because it would hamper my chance of getting the job.

I think it's the subtle expectations of institutionalized sexism.»

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