The burden of benevolent sexism: how it contributes to the maintenance of gender inequalities

By Manuela Barreto, N. Ellemers. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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African, Asian, Latina/o, and European Americans’ Responses to Popular Measures of Sexist Beliefs (2013, background): “Cross-cultural comparisons with samples outside the United States suggest that the measures would have adequate reliability and validity across various populations (Barreto & Ellemers, 2005; Eckes & Six-Materna, 1998; Ekehammar, Akrami & Araya, 2000; Glick et al., 2000).”
Benevolent Sexism and Hostile Sexism Across the Ages (2018, background): “These results indicate a consistent appeal of benevolent sexism to men at all ages, perhaps because of its romantic appearance (e.g., Barreto & Ellemers, 2005) or the ways that benevolent sexism subtly maintains men’s power (e.g., Hammond & Overall, 2015; Hammond, Overall, & Cross, 2016; Shnabel,…”
How Nice of Us and How Dumb of Me: The Effect of Exposure to Benevolent Sexism on Women’s Task and Relational Self-Descriptions (2010, background): “…of sexism might be relatively rare in the Netherlands, Dutch female college students express agreement with benevolent sexism, and do not regard it as very sexist (Barreto and Ellemers 2005), suggesting that subtle forms of sexism such as benevolent sexism are prevalent also in this country.”
How Sexy are Sexist Men? Women’s Perception of Male Response Profiles in the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (2010, background): “Furthermore, based on previous research on the perception of benevolent-sexist attitudes (Barreto and Ellemers 2005; Swim et al. 2005) we predicted that women would generally approve of men’s more benevolent prejudices toward women:”
Seeing the Unseen (2011, unknown): “Finally, we have argued that individuals endorse Benevolent Sexist beliefs because they do not define these beliefs as sexist (Barreto & Ellemers, 2005; Swim et al., 2005).”
Hostile and Benevolent Sexism and College Women’s STEM Outcomes (2017, unknown): “Women’s responses to hostilely sexist treatment include anger, disgust, stress, and heightened cardiovascular reactivity (Barreto & Ellemers, 2005; Bosson, Pinel, & Vandello, 2009; Salomon, Burgess, & Bosson, 2015; Schneider, Tomaka, & Palacios, 2001).”
Collective Action in Modern Times: How Modern Expressions of Prejudice Prevent Collective Action (2009, methodology): “Four negative emotions focusing on the behavior of Dr. de Wit were included to assess anger at the source, as in Study 1 (see also Barreto & Ellemers, 2005a, b).”
Social Perception of Rape Victims in Dating and Married Relationships: The Role of Perpetrator’s Benevolent Sexism (2010, result): “As empirical evidence suggests (Barreto and Ellemers 2005), people endorsing benevolent sexist statements are less likely to be perceived as sexist because “it passes unnoticed as a form of prejudice”, as they found in their study using Dutch undergraduate samples (Barreto and Ellemers 2005; p.”
Women in high places: When and why promoting women into top positions can harm them individually or as a group (and how to prevent this) (2012, background): “Denial of discrimination causes women who are rejected for the position they applied for to experience anxiety, uncertainty and loss of self-confidence, even if their rejection was due to biased treatment (Barreto & Ellemers, 2005a; Barreto et al., 2008).”
Be Too Kind to a Woman, She’ll Feel Incompetent: Benevolent Sexism Shifts Self-construal and Autobiographical Memories Toward Incompetence (2010, background): “In contrast, consistent with the idea that BS is subtler and less easily detected as HS (Barreto and Ellemers 2005; Dardenne et al. 2007), thoughts referring to sexism were greater after HS than BS. In the present study as well as in Dardenne et al. (2007), women could have suffered from cognitive l”
Effect size measures for mediation models: quantitative strategies for communicating indirect effects. (2011, unknown): “(6) A recent example of the use of R M is provided by Barreto and Ellemers (2005), who reported that the ratio of the indirect to direct effect of type of sexism (hostile vs. benevolent) on perceived sexism through evaluation of the source was 1.”