Neosexism among Women: The Role of Personally Experienced Social Mobility Attempts

An extension of the neosexism model based on the assumption that neosexism derives from experiences of upward mobility within the broader social structure of male-female relations was proposed and evaluated in a sample of 335 secretaries employed in a Canadian federal agency. It posited that the mor...

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Published in:Personality & social psychology bulletin 1999-12, Vol.25 (12), p.1487-1497
Main Authors: Tougas, Francine, Brown, Rupert, Beaton, Ann M., St-Pierre, Line
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affirmative Action
Canada
Career advancement
Civil Service
Clerical Workers
Discrimination
Employment Discrimination
Nontraditional Occupations
Occupational Mobility
Prejudice
Promotion (Occupational)
Secretaries
Sex discrimination
Sexism
Social mobility
Social psychology
Women
Working Women
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Summary:An extension of the neosexism model based on the assumption that neosexism derives from experiences of upward mobility within the broader social structure of male-female relations was proposed and evaluated in a sample of 335 secretaries employed in a Canadian federal agency. It posited that the more women attempted to access nontraditional fields of work, the more they experienced discrimination. Personally experienced discriminatory barriers were related to feelings of collective relative deprivation. Moreover, the more women felt deprived on behalf of their group, the less they endorsed neosexist beliefs. Finally, a reverse effect was predicted between neosexism, collective relative deprivation, and responses to affirmative action and a pro-male bias in the evaluation of the competence of male and female managers. Support for this model was obtained by a structural equation modeling technique (EQS).
ISSN:0146-1672
1552-7433
DOI:10.1177/01461672992510005