Citation

Soto D, Cole C. Sex Roles 1975; 1(4): 385-393.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00287228

PMID

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Abstract

Studies 1 and 2 of this paper were designed to reexamine the assumption that women and men are prejudiced against women. Subjects were 50 college women, 40 college men, 40 high-school women and 40 high-school men who were presented with four employment applications for evaluation. The names referring to the gender of the applicants were manipulated so that half of the subjects were shown the two most qualified applicants as female and the two least qualified as male. The other half of the subjects were shown the reverse of this. The results for this factor, with women subjects, revealed that the sex of the applicants did not interfere with or distort the subject's judgments ( p >.25). The men subjects did not show a preference for or a prejudice against applicants of either sex ( p >.05). The qualifications of the applicants were selected according to each subject's previous ranking of 10 job-related characteristics. The results for this factor, with women subjects, indicated a significant difference between the subjects' ranking of the characteristics and their final selection of the applicants ( p p >.05). No significant interaction between factors was found for either population of subjects ( p >.05). This research reflects changing attitudes of women towards women and provides new insights regarding men's attitudes toward their own sex.