Advantaged groups face role-incongruity prejudice but rarely enter low-status roles

Evidence

Depending on role context, members of advantaged groups (e.g., men, Whites, heterosexuals) can also be targets of prejudice when their stereotypical attributes are mismatched to role requirements. The most extensive meta-analysis of the subset of Goldberg studies presenting job résumés or applications for evaluation showed precisely this effect: Women were preferred over equivalent men for jobs rated as female sex-typed, and men over equivalent women for jobs rated as male sex-typed (Davison & Burke, 2000). Stereotypical mismatch to the requirements of social roles can diminish evaluations of members of advantaged groups. However, dominant group members are unlikely to pursue roles that offer lesser rewards and status. Therefore, few men attempt to enter female-dominated roles and few Whites attempt to enter minority-dominated roles. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 199

Depending on role context, members of advantaged groups (e.g., men, Whites, heterosexuals) can also be targets of prejudice when their stereotypical attributes are mismatched to role requirements. The most extensive meta-analysis of the subset of Goldberg studies presenting job résumés or applications for evaluation showed precisely this effect: Women were preferred over equivalent men for jobs rated as female sex-typed, and men over equivalent women for jobs rated as male sex-typed (Davison & Burke, 2000). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 201

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates a naive one-directional picture of prejudice (dominant group always privileged); relevant for reading Islamophobia as situational rather than uniform. — connects to: Equal starting roles in commercials do not lead to equal career outcomes — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 270; High-status groups could plausibly be stereotyped as undeserving rather than competent — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 165
• corroborated: 6 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 199; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 201