Subtle prejudice against women in The Netherlands.
Subtle discrimination against women in the Netherlands was examined, using Dovidio and Gaertner's (1983) investigatory design and a sample of 56 male university sophomores. The following variables were manipulated: confederate's gender, confederate's role (supervisory vs. subordinate in relation to the participant), and confederate's cognitive ability (high vs. low). It was expected that a woman in a subordinate role would be offered help more often than a woman in a supervisory role would, and that a low-ability woman in a subordinate role would be offered help more often than a high-ability woman in the same role. The results supported these expectations even though there was no evidence of stereotyping in the written answers to the questionnaire.
Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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D001076:Aptitude; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D011287:Prejudice; D011340:Problem Solving; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*