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The Media Is Falling Into A Sexist Trap By Focusing On Hillary Clintons 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 wont 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, theyre 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?) theyre ultimately viewed as less likable and thus, less likely to be promoted. And unlike men, when women initiate salary negotiations, theyre likely to be penalized by their managers again, because it makes them unlikable in a way that it doesnt for men.
For women, it does hurt to ask.
Womens power-seeking will evoke emotional reactions of contempt and disgust and therefore voters will be less likely to support their candidacy.
A study from Harvards Kennedy School put the backlash under a political microscope. The researchers found that when voters perceive women to be power-seeking, its likely to evoke emotional reactions of contempt and disgust. Theres 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 wasnt carried over to power-seeking men.
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yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)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)but are they talking about it on the teevee machine? noooooo......
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)as 'sexist' is to invite disaster.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)And it's as true now as it was then, if not more so.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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.