Ambivalent Sexism at Home and at Work: How Attitudes Toward Women in Relationships Foster Exclusion in the Public Sphere

Mina Cikara, Tiane L. Lee, Susan T. Fiske, Peter Glick

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Abstract

According to ambivalent sexism theory, sexism combines complementary gender ideologies, held by both men and women worldwide, which serve to justify social hierarchy. This chapter reviews how benevolent and hostile attitudes toward women operate in concert to ultimately maintain gender inequity. Research specifically targets the relationship between sexism and system justification as endorsed and enacted by men and women. Hostile and benevolent beliefs map onto widely held prescriptions and proscriptions for men and women; these beliefs shape men's and women's interactions in the private sphere (i.e., the home, close relationships). Finally, these system justifying beliefs extend to the workplace and impede women from progressing in the public sphere.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSocial and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)9780199869541
ISBN (Print)9780195320916
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2009

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Psychology

Keywords

  • Exclusion
  • Sexism
  • Social hierarchy
  • System justification
  • Women

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