Prejudice persists despite absent negative attitudes toward groups.

Evidence

The weakness of contemporary evidence that prejudice toward ethnic minorities or women is predominantly negative does not indicate that prejudice has disappeared. For example, economists continue to document a wage gap between women and men that is in part discriminatory (e.g., Lips, 2003), and psychologists provide evidence that women, more frequently than men, are targets of sexual harassment in the workplace (e.g., Fitzgerald, 1993). Daily diary studies reveal that women report being the targets of sexist incidents much more than men do (Swim, Hyers, Cohen, & Ferguson, 2001). Likewise, African American students report frequent experiences of discriminatory behavior (Swim, Hyers, Cohen, Fitzgerald, & Bylsma, 2003). Prejudicial phenomena thus appear to be alive and well, despite the lack of evidence that attitudes toward these groups conform to textbook definitions of prejudice. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 186

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The central puzzle of modern prejudice: discriminatory outcomes persist without measurable negative attitudes — pointso to a reframing of what prejudice is.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 186