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.
Not exact matches
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.
Studies 1 (N = 62) and 2 (N = 100) show,
with slightly different paradigms and measures, that compared to exposure to hostile
sexism, exposure to
benevolent sexism increases the extent to which female Dutch college students define themselves in relational terms and decreases the extent to which they emphasize their task - related characteristics.
The result is surprising because hostile
sexism was found to be associated
with negative feminine and masculine traits for women, and
benevolent sexism was found to be associated
with positive masculine and feminine traits for women (Glick & Fiske, 1996).