PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Glass Ceiling, Institutional Racism, Acquaintance Rape
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Negative attitudes and behaviour toward someone on the basis of their gender: most researchers use term to describe prejudice against women. St of women can sabotage of st related task: for example, if a prevalent st about women is that they"re less able to understand math/science, they perform poorly relatively to men. Research shows gender st are so well learned that they automatically influence our perceptions and judgements, often without our conscious awareness of such bias. We learn from young that: women are seen as polite, gentle, nurturing, compassionate, neat, indecisive, concerned with their appearance, and quiet. Also seen as concerned with fostering relationships with others, nurturing and deference: men tend to be aggressive, independent, nonemotional, decisive, confident, rough, blunt, sloppy and loud. We see that men and women are seen as the complete opposite on virtually all of the traits/characteristics listed (hence the term opposite sex)
