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Showing 1 to 20 of 292 for “"Sexism"”.
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Women's Experiences of Internalized Sexism
… exploring the lived experiences of women with sexism and its internalization. Ten women participated in the study to share their experiences through personal narratives. The study was qualitative in nature and results yielded coded phenomenological themes related to the experiences of sexism …
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Winged Women: Stewardesses, Sexism, and American Society
<p>Airline stewardesses in the decades between 1950 and 1980 reflected a microcosm of the American feminist movement. Subjected to what feminist theorist Laura Mulvey called “the male gaze,” in which women are viewed as objects who exist for the viewer’s pleasure, they were selected for their youth …
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Revisiting Ambivalent Sexism and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Examining the Effects of Respondents’ and Targets’ Racial Group Membership on Endorsement
… gender prejudice, particularly ambivalent sexism and its two components, hostile sexism and benevolent sexism (Glick & Fiske, 1996). I argue that ambivalent sexism theory as well as its measure, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, are due for an intersectional re-examination to determine the …
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Structural Sexism and Health in the United States
… measurement for the new concept of structural sexism and examining its relationship to health. Consistent with contemporary theories of gender as a multilevel social system, I conceptualize and measure structural sexism as systematic gender inequality in power and resources at the macro-level …
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Feminism and hostile sexism among the religiously affiliated.
… men who identify as feminist express hostile sexism sentiment to a higher degree than their feminist unaffiliated counterparts, along with Latinas and Asian-identified men. This study offers quantitative insights into the relationship between feminist identification, religious affiliation, and …
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Sexism and Women: The Implications of Female Gender Resentment
… an understudied area of the extant literature on sexism. Typically the focus is placed on men*s sexist attitudes and treatment of women, but is it possible that women also contribute to the subordination of their gender through sexist practices? These are questions which this thesis attempts to …
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Death, Power and Sexism in "Temblor" by Rosa Montero
… y relaciona con los dos subtemas, el poder y elsexismo porque es imposible discutir uno de esos sin discutir los demas.
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The Effect of Gender Threat on Implicit Sexism and Stereotyping
… of threat, gender salience, and explicit sexism. When gender was salient, threatened women low in explicit sexism had less favorable attitudes towards other women. Women high in explicit sexism showed no significant difference between threat and no threat. No effects were found for …
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The Impact of Sexism on Older Women's Mental and Physical Health
… to which older women perceive or experience sexism. This study investigated whether or not elderly women experience sexism and the impact it may have on their mental and physical health.</p>
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Measuring Self-Reported Exercise, Motivation to Exercise, and Sexism in Women
The harmfulness and pervasiveness of benevolent sexism is not a well disseminated issue, despite the belief that women are treated with equality in today’s society. The current study was designed to investigate whether exercise type and motivation to exercise would predict participants’ …
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Cyber-Sexism and Sexual Assault: Impact and a Step Towards Intervention.
An individual’s sexism and exposure to sexism has been associated with higher propensity to rape, and higher victim blame attribution in sexual violence cases. There is little literature focussed on whether cyber sexism can have the same effect as offline sexism. The aim of this thesis is to …
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Benevolent vs. Hostile Sexism Impact on Work Performance for Women in Turkey
… the direct impact of benevolent vs. hostile sexism on performance outcomes have done so in the context of a Western society. Because of this void in the literature, it remained unknown how living in a low egalitarian and/or non-Western society may impact women's experiences of sexism. The …
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Older women - 'doing things a different way' : ageism, sexism and leisure activities
… older women whose daily lives defy ageism and sexism - the dynamics of their freedoms and constraints are explored. The findings suggest that it is not until they are free of responsibility for their husbands and children that older women are free to fully participate in leisure on their own …
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Sexism and how it mediates the relationship between gender and rape myth acceptance
… acceptance. It was hypothesized that ambivalent sexism (AS) when divided into its four separate concepts: hostile (HS), protective paternalism (PP), complementary gender differentiation (CGD), and heterosexual intimacy (HI), that each would mediate the relationship between gender and rape myth …
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The Impact of the Emotional Tone of Confrontation on Perceptions of Confronters of Sexism
… numerous benefits associated with confronting sexism, many women refrain from doing so due to social consequences and negative perceptions. Utilizing an online scenario study, the present research further examines these perceptions, exploring whether a woman confronting with an angry, sad, or …
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THE AMERICAN DREAM: THE EFFECT OF MERITOCRACY BELIEFS OF WOMEN ON FUTURE EXPECTATIONS OF SEXISM
… beliefs on women's predictions of future sexism, and found that after a sexist event, women predicted future sexism at a different company to be less likely when they were high in meritocracy endorsement, compared to low. The current research first investigated mechanisms that might be …
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