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Why so slow?

Virginia Valian

1998150 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998MIT Press · 401 pages · ENGISBN 9780262220545
  • 1999MIT Press · ENGISBN 9780585090726
  • 1999MIT Press · 421 pages · ENGISBN 9780262312066
  • 2004MIT Press · 150 pages · ENGISBN 9780262250252

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 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.

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