Benevolent sexism praises women within patriarchally defined roles

Evidence

These findings are compatible with Glick and Fiske’s (1996) demonstrations that people often hold benevolently sexist beliefs that describe women favorably in the implicit context of the traditional female roles that are inherent in patriarchal arrangements. Even though Allport acknowledged that dictionary definitions recognize positive as well as negative prejudice (p. 6), he disallowed positive sentiments as relevant to his understanding of prejudice and confined his analysis to prejudice as antipathy. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines benevolent sexism as favorable characterization confined to traditional female roles — the positive form of prejudice Allport excluded.
• XREF: Links to the vault’s prejudice-psychology thread where Allport’s antipathy-only definition is being reassessed. — connects to: Women were deemed the prime channels for spreading respectable values — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 156
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 184