title: Impacting sexism through social justice prevention: implications at the person and environmental levels.
abstract: Sexism in our society leads to multiple negative outcomes for women. Although traditional therapeutic approaches as well as preventive interventions address the specific negative outcomes of sexism, they rarely utilize a social justice approach. The deleterious effects of sexism occur complexly; sexist interpersonal events often occur within family systems that may endorse traditional gender roles, which exist within a societal and cultural context that contains sexist norms and formalized sexist policies. These multifaceted, ingrained circumstances delineate the need for preventive social justice to address sexism on multiple levels. A prevention/social justice model will be used to critique existing interventions and identify avenues for change in research and practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. jschwartz@uh.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: Lori D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Lindley
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012935:Social Justice; D012944:Social Support