Naming benevolent treatment as harmful is a key step toward gender equity

Evidence

Uncovering potentially hidden sources of gender prejudice, and calling attention to the ways in which treating women differently from men can harm them – even when this appears, on the surface, to be benevolent – can only further the aim of conquering gender inequity. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 783