Gender prejudice Flashcards
(20 cards)
What are traditional social roles?
Beliefs about what behaviors are “appropriate” for men and women relate to differences in how men and women display aggressive and/or prosocial behaviors
What is prejudice?
A negative attitude towards a social group and individuals that make up that social group
What is the most influential social identity?
Gender is one of the earliest learned and the most influential one.
What is sexism?
Prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviour toward people of a certain gender
What are the two ways gender stereotypes manifest?
Descriptively, by reflecting qualities ascribed to men and women and prescriptively by reflecting beliefs of men and women “should” be.
What is the role congruity theory?
Theory that people in a certain group are expected to be and behave a certain way, and when they don’t, we tend to negatively evaluate and respond to them.
What are factors that contribute to women’s underrepresentation in leadership positions?
Agentic traits are associated with men and leaders
Trait inferences
Stereotypes about women leaders
The double bind, conflicting expectation for the boss to be both traditionally feminine and masculine
Nonverbal cues
How are men and women different when it comes to political attitude?
They tend to have different political attitudes, to identify with different political parties and to vote for different candidates and policies.
More women tend to support liberal politics since they’re more communal
What does the gender binary dictates?
Which gender exists, their interrelations and their source (biological sex)
What cues do people use to categorize others based on gender?
Behaviour and appearance
What is misgendering? What does it cause?
A form of anti-transgender bias referring to the misidentification of a person’s gender identity.
Identity denial causes poorer psychological health, it works as a minority stressor
What is the minority stress model?
People from minority groups that experience prejudice are more likely to have health problems
What is degendering?
A behavioral form of anti-transgender bias referring to the tendency to not refer to transgender individuals in gendered terms nor to attribute gender stereotypic traits to transgender individuals.
What is the study by Liebenow et al.?
They did a study with an IAT with agentic/communal traits and men and women to test for anti-transgender prejudice. They did 3 experiments, one with 2 IATs with faces, one for transgender and the other for cisgender, another similar but with just names and a final one with a combined IAT of transgender and cisgender. People took longer in general to classify trans people.
What is homophobia?
Prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior towards people of certain sexualities
How is sexual orientation identified?
Face and physical appearance
Gait, speech, clothing, eye gaze and even pronunciation of a single syllable
What is a factor that is giving rise to prejudice?
Perceptual disfluency, the difficulty that occurs while processing a social stimuli
In what way identifying queer individuals by nonverbal cues can be beneficial?
It allows gay individuals to identify in-group members without needing to publicly display their own sexual orientation and allows straight individuals to more efficiently find potential mates.
What is Ding and Rule’s study about?
How bisexual individuals are categorized. They found that bisexual men were being categorized as gay, they were being labeled in the same level of “gayness” as gay men.
The same happened for women. This contradicts the evolutionary theory.
What is Prentice and Carranza’s study about?
The different expectations put upon the different genders and the continuum of undesirability for traits.
