Why so slow? : the advancement of women / Virginia Valian.

By: Valian, Virginia [author]
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c1998Description: xvii, 401 p.ages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0262220547 (hardcover : alk paper)Subject(s): Sex discrimination against women -- Psychological aspects | Sexism | Women in the professions | Sex differences (Psychology)DDC classification: 305.42 LOC classification: HQ1237 | .V35 1998
Contents:
Gender schemas at work -- Gender begins--and continues--at home -- Learning about gender -- Biology and behavior -- Biology and cognition -- Schemas that explain behavior -- Evaluating women and men -- Effects on the self -- Interpreting success and failure -- Women in the professions -- Women in academia -- Professional performance and human values -- Affirmative action and the law -- Remedies.
Summary: 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.
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Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-383)

Gender schemas at work --
Gender begins--and continues--at home --
Learning about gender --
Biology and behavior --
Biology and cognition --
Schemas that explain behavior --
Evaluating women and men --
Effects on the self --
Interpreting success and failure --
Women in the professions --
Women in academia --
Professional performance and human values --
Affirmative action and the law --
Remedies.


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.

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