Prejudice psychology splits by gender-specific threat and function.

Evidence

This new perspective emphasizes the importance of exploring racism, ethnocentrism, and arbitrary-set prejudice as a gendered phenomenon. That is, in studying the psychology of intergroup prejudice, the consideration of the gender of the target, the gender of its agents, and the character of the prejudice (i.e., as in-group favoritism or as out-group aggression) are key to understanding the fundamental nature of prejudice. … Our use of parental investment and sexual selection theories provided a useful guide in understanding the functions served by prejudice and also in generating hypotheses regarding a genderspecific psychology of prejudice. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1273

Categorization

• QUESTION: This gender-differentiated account surfaces a notable gap: my prejudice-thread sources are largely gender-blind. Worth checking whether the gendered-mechanism data holds up empirically or is an undersupported extension.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1273