Prejudice toward women includes positive beliefs, not just antipathy

Evidence

Although the Allportian approach to sexism has been fruitful, the limitations of treating sexism purely as antipathy toward women are twofold. First, it does not take into account the fact that people often hold positive attitudes toward and beliefs about women. Second, it does not explain why women themselves are prone to maintaining the status quo. Recent advances in social-structural theories of prejudice address how seemingly benevolent forms of prejudice undermine women’s socioeconomic progress. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 758

Categorization

• XREF: Directly updates the vault’s Allport-reassessment thread: Allport’s antipathy-centric definition misses benevolent, status-quo-preserving prejudice forms. — connects to: Greater explicit positivity toward women rules out the attitude interpretation of male-name favoritism. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 206
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice article’s theme of group roles stabilizing hierarchy — benevolent sexism here functions as ideology protecting existing structure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 758