PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Role, Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation
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Gender ideology: do you findit acceptable for women to work outside the home. Can men stay home and take care of children: gender ideologies: attitudes about gender roles. Traditional: men work; women stay home, men more power than women. Gender-role attitudes: a = affect sexism, b = behaviour discrimination. Sexism: refers to one"s attitude or feeling toward people based on their sex alone: e. g. Dislike a doctor because they are a woman: e. g. dislike a nurse because they are a man. Traditional: decreased over time, open disregard for women, differential treatment of women and men, belief that women are less competent than men. Endorsement of traditional roles for women and men. Modern: decrease smaller, denial of discrimination, resentment of preferential treatment, u(cid:374)deresti(cid:373)ati(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s diffi(cid:272)ult fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)g jo(cid:271)s traditio(cid:374)ally held by men. Feelings of hostility toward women who challenge traditional female role. Benevolent sexism: reflects positive feelings toward women, including a prosocial orientation toward women (e. g. the desire to help women)
