Women's Benevolent Sexism as Reaction to Hostility

By Ann R. Fischer. 2006

111 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Chris G. Sibley
2. Eduardo Graells-Garrido
3. J. Duckitt
4. Kim A. Case
5. N. Overall

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Chris G. Sibley
2. J. Duckitt
3. N. Overall
4. Eduardo Graells-Garrido
5. Petar Milojev
6. Matthew D. Hammond
7. Filippo Menczer
8. Mounia Lalmas

Citations in the corpus

• Benevolent Sexism and Hostile Sexism Across the Ages (2018, background): “For example, people may endorse benevolent sexism as a means of attaining security in response to threat (Fischer, 2006; Glick et al., 2000) or because of societal pressure to uphold traditional beliefs and customs (see Schwartz & Rubel-Lifschitz, 2009) rather than to justify personally held…”
• Raising Male Privilege Awareness and Reducing Sexism: An Evaluation of Diversity Courses (2007, background): “The Fischer (2006) and Glick et al. (2004) findings imply that benevolent sexism may actually increase as female students in diversity courses accumulate knowledge of institutional sexism and blatant discrimination against women due to their knowledge of men’s views of women and societal…”
• When Women Become More Hostilely Sexist toward their Gender: The System-Justifying Effect of Benevolent Sexism (2007, background): “These and related findings indicate that women may be motivated to embrace BS in nations with high levels of gender inequality and in which men tend to be high in HS, perhaps because of the protection that this seemingly benevolent and protective ideology provides from more hostile and overtly aggre”
• First Women, Second Sex: Gender Bias in Wikipedia (2015, background): “s not just a matter of women participation in the community. Everyone should be targeted in gender equality campaigns, as an increased presence of women does not guarantee a non-sexist point of view (Fischer, 2006). The bias in link formation makes women harder to find than men in Wikipedia, both thr”