Eps 408: Sexist
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Soham Castillo
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Sexism can be the belief that one gender is better or more valuable than another, or the belief in the superiority of one's own gender over another.
Sexism extends from the individual to the institutional level and includes beliefs, behaviours and the use of language. This policy reflects the pervasive view that women are inferior and leads students to ask questions about their gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
There is a risk that pupils will hear sexist views expressed about peers, parents, teachers and others about peers and parents and teachers.
Peter Glick and Susan Fiske have written a paper on the concept of ambivalent sexism and found that contrary to popular belief, there is indeed a wide range of views on the nature and nature of hostile sexism in schools. Hostile sexism is not what most people think when they portray themselves as hostile to peers, parents, teachers and others.
Jessica Bennett's fascinating work shows that subtle sexist prejudices have had disastrous consequences for many of us, both in the workplace and elsewhere. This satirical piece, which jokingly rewrites Albert Einstein's obituary, takes a look at how benevolent sexism could play out in everyday life.
In her striking wit, Bennett describes vital steps we can all take to deal with subtly sexist thoughts and behaviours at the moment. It is tempting to play down the damage subtle sexism does every day, but the power of subtle constants is easy to underestimate, just as cutting out processed foods has a much more significant long-term effect on our health - and is an important part of our overall health and well-being. Look out for each other and the subtle but powerful effects of sexism in your everyday life.
In a later paper, Glick and Fiske determine the extent to which hostile and benevolent sexist statements are supported by the majority of people in the United States and elsewhere.
First, they note that both hostile and benevolent sexism tend to be highly correlated across borders. It is not, therefore, the case that people who advocate hostile sexism tend not to hold benevolent sexist views, but rather that they are in favour of one another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another, another That the supporters don't look like real sexists. On the contrary, those who support it are much more likely to admit that they have explicitly hostile attitudes toward women, even if they have a hostile attitude to engage in benevolent racism or sexism.
This is important because people often assume that sexist men feel powerful and aggressive when it comes to maintaining dominance. Moreover, the link between hostile sexism and aggression in relationships is explained by a perceived lack of power, not simply by a desire to dominate women. Men who are worried about losing power, and those who hold hostile sexist views, should have difficulty navigating power constraints in intimate relationships.
Social scientists and the public often think about how sexism affects women in politics and the workplace. In the workplace, widespread unconscious sexism determines staffing decisions, how voters judge political candidates, and how students rate professors "and students" attitudes toward professors.
At the same time, most men are very keen to distance themselves from sexist beliefs. But a new study from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health shows just how devastating these prejudices can be.
When women's gender identity is primed, they are more likely to interpret ambiguous remarks as sexist than their personal identity. Moreover, women with higher gender identification tended to describe ambiguous situational prejudice as discrimination, compared to women with lower identification. The less a woman identified with her gender group, the more she expressed her willingness to confront other women with sexism.
This behavior is consistent with the notion that women value the ability to maintain heterosexual relationships with men in heterosexual intimacy and treat hostile sexism and heterosexual hostility as hostile to their gender identity rather than as a sign of their sexual orientation.
We know from research literature that observing sexism and interpreting it as sexism positively predicts the frequency of confrontations. Sexism is unique, however, and it can be difficult to interpret sexist events as such, as sexism itself is a phenomenon and there is no evidence of its existence.