Respected or Rejected: Perceptions of Women Who Confront Sexist Remarks

By Elizabeth H. Dodd, Traci A. Giuliano, Jori M. Boutell, Brooke Moran. 2001

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Perceptions of non-target confronters in response to racist and heterosexist remarks (2012, background): “Because a prejudicial comment low in offensiveness is less likely to be interpreted as prejudicial than a comment higher in offensiveness (Ashburn-Nardo, Morris, & Goodwin, 2008), perceivers may judge someone more positively for confronting a highly prejudicial comment rather than doing nothing, but”
The unexpectedly positive consequences of confronting sexism (2011, background): “Research suggests that men should rate their confronter and the interaction more negatively and show stronger verbal and nonverbal responses to a sexist, as compared to gender-neutral confrontation (Czopp et al., 2006; Dodd et al., 2001).”
Resisting Prejudice Every Day: Exploring Women’s Assertive Responses to Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, and Sexism (2007, background): “Women’s assertiveness was inhibited due to concerns about being judged negatively (e.g., as impolite), which other research has demonstrated to be a justifiable fear ( Dodd et al., 2001 ).”
Ways to Go: Men's and Women's Support for Aggressive and Nonaggressive Confrontation of Sexism as a Function of Gender Identification (2014, background): “One of these factors is the gender of the evaluator: women are more likely than men to report a positive impression of a female confronter (Dodd et al., 2001).”