According to ambivalent sexism theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), the coexistence of gendered
power differences and mutual interdependence creates two apparently opposing but …

The theory of and research on ambivalent sexism—which encompasses both attitudes that
are overtly negative (hostile sexism) and those that seem subjectively positive but are …

Despite progress made toward increasing women's interest and involvement in science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM), women continue to be underrepresented and …

A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us—including many of those who are
persecuted and powerless—so often defend the social systems that cause misery and …

A theory of system justification was proposed 25 years ago by Jost and Banaji (1994, Br. J.
Soc. Psychol., 33, 1) in the British Journal of Social Psychology to explain 'the participation …

A preregistered meta-analysis, including 244 effect sizes from 85 field audits and 361,645
individual job applications, tested for gender bias in hiring practices in female-stereotypical …

A significant amount of the research on two types of biases against women leaders—agentic
deficiency (perceptions that women have minimal leadership potential) and agentic penalty …

We conducted two studies and our primary goal was to assess the similarity between
stereotypes about women and men and stereotypes about successful scientists. In addition …

Social role theory provides a framework to help understand the complexity of gender in the
political sphere. We demonstrate how SRT both helps to explain extant research findings …

In this article we analyze data from high‐quality surveys conducted in the United States and
the United Kingdom that included multiple symbolic and operational measures of political …