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applegrove

(118,006 posts)
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:52 PM Aug 2016

The Media Is Falling Into A Sexist Trap By Focusing On Hillary Clinton’s Likability

The Media Is Falling Into A Sexist Trap By Focusing On Hillary Clinton’s Likability

by Laurel Raymond at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/the-media-is-falling-into-a-sexist-trap-by-focusing-on-hillary-clintons-likability-1426a02d2a0f

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Scientists have shown again and again that people are more likely to associate positive leadership attributes with male characteristics, and to more quickly associate leadership with male names. This plays out in the workforce in important ways. It often means that women are less likely to put themselves forward — research shows that men will apply for jobs when they have 60 percent of the qualifications covered, while women usually won’t unless they cover the whole 100 percent. When it comes to pay, men are far more likely to negotiate initial offers, and four times more likely to ask for a raise.

But when women do gin up the courage to demand their worth, they’re often punished for it. Research from Stanford University found that when women exhibit masculine behaviors — say, asking for a promotion, or pushing for a male-dominated role (the presidency, perhaps?) — they’re ultimately viewed as less likable and thus, less likely to be promoted. And unlike men, when women initiate salary negotiations, they’re likely to be penalized by their managers — again, because it makes them unlikable in a way that it doesn’t for men.

For women, it does hurt to ask.

“Women’s power-seeking will evoke emotional reactions of contempt and disgust and therefore voters will be less likely to support their candidacy.

A study from Harvard’s Kennedy School put the backlash under a political microscope. The researchers found that when voters perceive women to be power-seeking, it’s likely to evoke “emotional reactions of contempt and disgust.” There’s no such backlash for equally power-seeking men. The study also revealed that power-seeking female politicians were seen as unsupportive and uncaring, a judgement that again wasn’t carried over to power-seeking men.

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The Media Is Falling Into A Sexist Trap By Focusing On Hillary Clinton’s Likability (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2016 OP
We really need to check ourselves... yallerdawg Aug 2016 #1
such a central issue in the campaign of the first woman president. mopinko Aug 2016 #2
I disagree that this is sexist. It is what it is and blowing it off roguevalley Aug 2016 #3
Clinton is very liked among dems uponit7771 Aug 2016 #4
I was citing the Quartz article this story mentions for weeks after it came out. BobbyDrake Aug 2016 #5
Not fall into a trap. The GOP and the press have been united Hortensis Aug 2016 #6

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. We really need to check ourselves...
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:00 PM
Aug 2016

when we have our initial gut reactions to people and incidents.

Each and everyone of us is carrying a lot of baggage, and the longer we've been on the trip, the more baggage we get!

mopinko

(69,803 posts)
2. such a central issue in the campaign of the first woman president.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:01 PM
Aug 2016

but are they talking about it on the teevee machine? noooooo......

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
5. I was citing the Quartz article this story mentions for weeks after it came out.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:01 PM
Aug 2016

And it's as true now as it was then, if not more so.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Not fall into a trap. The GOP and the press have been united
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:22 PM
Aug 2016

in the use of misogyny and unease about women leaving their traditional roles to increase hostile attitudes toward Hillary Clinton.

And, of course, underlying the unrelenting opposition and carefully orchestrated lies and hostility toward the most irrationally hated woman in American history is, of course, the reality that she is the one most likely to take this next, giant step toward true equality of the sexes.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
-- the late great Molly Ivins, who didn't support Hillary Clinton in 2006 because felt she didn't have the guts to go to war against the right wing extremists in the other party, not because she was too strong.
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