Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2012
Keywords
gender discrimination, sexism, gender differences, intergroup conflict, political ideology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.4471/MCS.2012.14
Abstract
We surveyed Americans regarding their beliefs about gender discrimination over the past several decades. Men and women agreed that women faced much more discrimination than men in the past, and they agreed that the discrimination gap between men and women has narrowed in recent years. However, men perceived the gap as narrower than women did at all time periods, and reported that there is little difference today in the amount of gender discrimination women and men face. Political ideology moderated these beliefs such that conservative men were most likely to report that anti-Man bias now equals or exceeds anti-Woman bias. Similar to recent research on beliefs about racism, these findings suggest that groups which differ historically in status and power exhibit perceptual differences regarding the changing nature of discrimination.
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Masculinities and Social Change, v. 1, issue 3, p. 210-239
Scholar Commons Citation
Bosson, Jennifer K.; Vandello, Joseph A.; Michniewicz, Kenneth S.; and Lenes, Joshua G., "American Men’s and Women’s Beliefs about Gender Discrimination: For Men, It’s Not Quite a ZeroSum Game" (2012). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1162.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1162
