WGST 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ambivalent Sexism, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Lookism
17 Sep 2016
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Prejudice: negative attitude or emotional reaction toward a particular group of people. Ex: gender bias -- an inclination to hold a particular perspective about women at the expense of possibly equal alternatives. Discrimination: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice. Stereotypes and/or discriminatory behaviors that serve to restrict women"s roles and maintain male domination. Backlash effect: violating these gender stereotypes can result in social and economic penalties. She sued under civil rights act claiming sex discrimination. The us supreme court decision -- justice. An employer who objects to aggressiveness in women but whose positions require this trait places women in an intolerable and impermissible catch-22: out of a job if they. Wgst 300 behave aggressively and out of a job it they don"t. In 2001, only 28 (3%) of 900 partners @ Pw were women presently 15% of partners are women. Hostile sexism: negative stereotypes of women, primarily directed toward non-traditional women.
