College Students’ Descriptions of Everyday Gender Prejudice

Brinkman, Britney G.; Rickard, Kathryn M.

doi:10.1007/s11199-009-9643-3

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“…Participants Data for the present study were derived from a larger study in which college students responded to an online diary for 14 days regarding their experiences of gender prejudice (See also Brinkman and Rickard 2009). Eighty-one women from a large western university attended the primary research session where they completed the demographic questionnaire and were given instructions about using the online diary.…”

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“What I wanted to do was…” Discrepancies Between College Women’s Desired and Reported Responses to Gender Prejudice

2011

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When experiencing gender prejudice, college women engage in a dynamic decision making process about whether and how to respond. We examined the discrepancy between how college women wanted to respond and how they actually responded to gender prejudice events and explored their reasons for not using a desired response. In this study, 81 college women from the Western United States responded to a qualitative online daily diary about gender prejudice. In 34% (N=265) of the events, the women reported there was a discrepancy between what they wanted to do and how they actually reacted, with the most common discrepancy being a desire to utilize a confrontational response (91%, N=242). Over the two week period, women reported significantly more events during which they considered the use of a confrontational response (N=242) than they actually used one (N=199). Women's reported reasons for not using their desired response included: not being cost effective (25%), concern about social norms (37%), setting limitations (19%), personality characteristics (9%) and not being bothered enough by the event (10%). We also found that when women considered using a confrontational response but decided not to, they reported using all other response types instead. In these cases, women who did nothing during the event reported lower levels of distress during the event than women who used a psychological response or a different confrontational response. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

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“What I wanted to do was…” Discrepancies Between College Women’s Desired and Reported Responses to Gender Prejudice

2011

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“…For example, in the United States, 2008 presidential campaign in the United States had the potential to have two unknown possibilities: a White female or a Black male for the presidential nomination. Apparently, the less risky unknown was to nominate a Black male as opposed to a White female (Brinkman & Rickard, 2009;Brinkman, Garcia, & Rickard, 2011;Garcia-Retamero & Lόpez-Zafra, 2006;Lehman, 2012;Leppel, 2001;Nadal, Davidoff, Davis, Wong, Marshall, & McKenzie, 2015;Stefurak, Taylor, & Mehta, 2010). ISSN 2329-9150 2016 …”

Section: Gendermentioning

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“…Recent research has established that STEM academic programs have traditionally shown discrimination and prejudice toward female students (Berryman-Fink, 2006;Brinkman & Rickard, 2009;Brinkman, Garcia, & Rickard, 2011;Deemer, Smith, Carroll, & Carpenter, 2014;Garcia-Retamero & Lόpez-Zafra, 2006;Lehman, 2012;Leppel, 2001;Levin, Van Laar, & Sidnaius, 2003;Nadal, Davidoff, Davis, Wong, Marshall, & McKenzie, 2015;Rice, Lopez, Richardson, & Stinson, 2013). One such academic discipline, business, traditionally over-represents White males.…”

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Gender, Race, and College Major: Do They Predict Modern Racism?

Oxendine

2016

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Gender and race have consistently been associated with racial prejudice and discrimination. This study investigates these relationships further along with college major. Looking at a college academic major that is overrepresented with a gender and racial group associated with modern racism to discover if this leads this academic major to predict modern racism attitudes and beliefs. The research participants consisted of 225 undergraduate and graduate students at an ethnically diverse regional university in the southeastern United States. As hypothesized, gender, race, and college major are significant predictors of modern racism.

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“…However, many of the potentially sexist interpersonal behaviors that women encounter in their daily lives such as cat-calls (Chaudoir & Quinn, 2010), lewd remarks, and objectifying gazes (Gervais, Vescio, & Allen, 2011;Saguy, Quinn, Dovidio, & Pratto, 2010;Swim et al, 2001;Brinkman & Rickard, 2009) do not fall squarely within standard conceptualizations of hostile or benevolent sexism. Whereas hostile and benevolent sexism relies on stereotypes and prescribed social roles based on gender group membership to subordinate women (Glick & Fiske, 1996), sexual objectification-behaviors that reduce women to mere body parts designed for the consumption of others (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997)-relies upon changes in perceptual processes.…”

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What Looks Like Sexism and Why? The Effect of Comment Type and Perpetrator Type on Women's Perceptions of Sexism

Riemer

Chaudoir

Earnshaw

2014

The Journal of General Psychology

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Sexist comments are not perceived equally in the eyes of women. We extend previous research by examining the degree to which multiple types of potentially sexist comments made by multiple types of men are perceived as sexist. Further, we examine the degree to which three possible mediators--prototypicality, perceived intent, and interdependence--explained these effects. Female undergraduate students (N = 248) were randomly assigned to read a scenario in which a hostile sexist, benevolent sexist, or objectifying comment was made by one of three types of men: a stranger, their boss, or their boyfriend. Results demonstrate that hostile sexism was perceived as more sexist than benevolent sexism or objectification. Comments made by boyfriends were also rated as less sexist than those made by bosses or strangers. Furthermore, perceptions of prototypicality of the comment or perpetrator and perceived intent to harm mediated the effect of study manipulations on perceptions of sexism.

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College Students’ Descriptions of Everyday Gender Prejudice

Cited by 46 publications

References 64 publications

“What I wanted to do was…” Discrepancies Between College Women’s Desired and Reported Responses to Gender Prejudice

“What I wanted to do was…” Discrepancies Between College Women’s Desired and Reported Responses to Gender Prejudice

Gender, Race, and College Major: Do They Predict Modern Racism?

What Looks Like Sexism and Why? The Effect of Comment Type and Perpetrator Type on Women's Perceptions of Sexism

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