When women become more hostilely sexist toward their gender: The system-justifying effect of benevolent sexism

Sex Roles

Volumn 57, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 743-754

  Sibley, Chris G ^a   Overall, Nickola C ^a   Duckitt, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ambivalent Sexism; Benevolent Sexism; Hostile Sexism; Right Wing Authoritarianism; System justification theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448951351     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-007-9306-1     Document Type: Article

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