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.
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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*