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Gender Schemas: Consequences & Remedies
Materials Adapted from:
- Virginia Valian - Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wiseli)
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What Are Schemas?
• Cognitive structures, ideas, or hypotheses
• Useful – allow us to orient, categorize, predict
• Mental shortcuts - allow us to process information quickly
• Use of schemas is inevitable in normal cognition
• The content of schemas continually changes
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Consequences of Schemas
When Activated, Schemas --
• Direct our perception
• Skew our perception
• Influence our behavior
Usually Without Our Awareness
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Questions Posed (by Virgina Valian)
Are women paid less than men?
Do women advance more slowly than men?
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Questions Posed (by Virgina Valian)
Are women paid less than men?
Do women advance more slowly than men?
Both Answers: YES
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Moreover, patterns occur across:
ScienceHumanitiesMedicineLaw
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There are sex disparities in salary & rate of career advancement
( A Result of Gender Schemas )
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For example -- salary disparities….
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Data on rate of advancement..
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Summary
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Why?
• Are Women Paid Less Than Men?
• Do Women Advance More Slowly?
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• Pipeline Problem
• Childcare Problem
• Values Problem
• Acculturation Problem
• Women Less Competent?
Common Explanations
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Best Explanation of Sex Disparities
Hypotheses about what it means to be male or female, hypotheses that we all (male and female) share.
Success is largely the accumulation of many small advantages. Small imbalances accumulate to disadvantages for women.
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Conclusion…. (Egan & Bendick, 1994)
• Women’s salaries benefit less from qualifications than men’s
• Women's achievements and qualifications appear to be worth less than men's
• Supported by research in diverse domains
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Peer review of research… (Wenneras & Wold, 1997)
Swedish Medical Research Council
Applicants 46% women; Fellowships 20% to women
Created objective “Total Impact Points” scale to assess qualifications (e.g., publications, journal prestige, etc)
Found: Gender influenced judges’ evaluation -- Women needed 100 points to get same judge recommendation as men with 40 points
CONCLUSION: Women had to reach higher standard to get same recognition as men
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Evaluating musical ability…. (Goldin & Rouse)
Orchestras adopted “blind” auditions, concealing candidates’ behind a screen
Hiring of women musicians increased
Conclusion: Blind auditions eliminated use of gender schemas including beliefs that women have “smaller techniques”, “poorer sound”
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Hiring faculty… (Steinpres et al., 1999)
238 faculty members evaluated same vitae with either female or male name
Both men and women faculty were more likely to recommend hiring the man
Conclusion: Gender schemas cause both men and women
- to evaluate men more favorably - to be more likely to hire men
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Why do these effects occur?
• Gender schemas skew our perception
• Gender schemas bias our judgment
• Gender schemas change the way we see others
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Job performance always includes ambiguous, subjective aspects…
• Gender schemas influence ambiguous evaluation, disadvantaging women
• Gender schemas influence even highly objective dimensions (e.g., height…)
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(Biernat, Manis, & Nelson, 1991)
• College students viewed photos of men and women matched for height
• Models stood near doorway to provide reference point
• Students over-estimated men’s height men, under-estimated women’s height
• Conclusion: Gender schemas skew perception even on objective factors
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Summing it up …
No one is exempt. We all share gender schemas, which cause –
…men to be viewed as more competent and capable than women
…men’s work to be overrated and overvalued relative to women’s
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Small, systematic undervaluation of women…
…can be largely unintentional and unaware
…accumulates over time
…leads to smaller salaries, slower promotion for women
… has real consequences: Women must achieve more than men to receive same recognition
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What to do?
Awareness is key
First, understand implications of research
Second, raise our own awareness of bias
Third, combat bias in our own lives
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The end and a beginning…
Thank you.