PSYC12H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Asian Americans, Paternalism, Subtyping
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An ambivalen alliance: hostile and benevolent sexism as complementary justifications for gender inequality. Benevolent sexism: a subjectively favourable, chivalrous ideology that offers protection and affection to women who embrace conventional roles. Hostile sexism: antipathy toward women who are viewed as usurping men"s power: tavris/wade term pedestal-gutter syndrome = madonna-whore dichotomy, faithful wives vs. murderous seductresses. Ambivalent sexism inventory: 22 item self report measure of sexist attitudes with separate 11 item hostile and benevolent sexism scales. Allport defined prejudice as an antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization. But benevolent sexism suggests otherwise: but he does fix this in an afterthought which says the net effect must be inequality. They also perceive sexist discrimination as less serious when the perpetrator expressed a benovelent, protective justification rather than a hostile one. Also more likely to excuse hostile discrimination by a husband, this only occurred for women without paid employment though.
