The Compassionate Sexist, By Ivona Hideg And D. Lance...

The first article I reviewed from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology titled The Compassionate Sexist? How Benevolent Sexism Promotes and Undermines Gender Equality in the Workplace by Ivona Hideg and D. Lance Ferris examined benevolent sexism in the workplace. Benevolent sexism appears to promote gender equality, but it actually undermines it by contributing to gender segregation in the workplace. It contributes to keeping women in positions in which they are underrepresented, and keeps them from moving up to male dominant occupational positions. This article studies the more complex perspectives of the effects that sexism has on the employment equity (EE) policy (Hideg, I., Ferris, D. L.). While there are numerous findings showing a negative relationship between sexism and EE policy support, these researchers expanded on the ambivalent sexism theory to see if it always view sexism as hostile. According to Wikipedia, ambivalent sexism is a theoretical framework which s uggests that sexism has two sub-components: hostile sexism and benevolent sexism. Hostile sexism reflects negative evaluations and stereotypes about a gender such as the idea that women are incompetent and inferior to men, while benevolent sexism is a chivalrous attitude toward women that feels favorable but is actually sexist in that it casts women as weak (Wikipedia). Past reactions to EE policies have usually ignored benevolent sexism, most likely because it is seen as favorable. The