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Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women cover
  • ISBN: 9780262720311
  • ISBN10: 0262720310
Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women

by Virginia Valian

 
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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... Expand 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. The most important consequence of gender schemas for professional life is that men tend to be overrated and women underrated. Collapse
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