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Maybe there's a source for it and it's not generalization. I'd believe that a "large" percentage (not the majority, but double digits) of the population thinks
by lowboy 14y ago
Maybe there's a source for it and it's not generalization. I'd believe that a "large" percentage (not the majority, but double digits) of the population thinks that women need some level of care/consideration by men, and that there would be quite a few women in that group.
- a_bonobo 14y agoIt's a fairly large research area, the effect in question is called "benevolent sexism", in which women are portrayed as being "weaker" (where the definition of weak is NOT purely physical strength) and need help to get along in life. The interesting thing is that benevolent sexism is also widely spread in women themselves. Here's a fairly recent paper about the spread of benevolent/hostile sexism in university undergrads, where benevolent sexism was relatively evenly spread between male and females: http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/36/4/432.full http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/36/4/432.full