Publication

1998 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

100,250 words, Guess

Page Count

401 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing52981

Classifications

  • DDC305.42
  • LCCHQ1237 .V35 1998

Description

Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implicit hypotheses about gender differences - gender schemas - that create small sex differences in characteristics, behaviors, perceptions, and evaluations of men and women. Those small imbalances accumulate to advantage men and disadvantage women.

Subjects

Topics

SexismBusinesswomenPsychological aspectsWomen, conduct of lifeWomen in the professionsSex differences (Psychology)Sex discrimination against women

Other Editions

  • Why so slow?: the advancement of womenMIT Press1998-01-01

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