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Unconscious attitudes and beliefs about women and men

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Wahrnehmung und Herstellung von Geschlecht

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In the last four decades, analyses of gender have produced entirely new fields of study and created deep transformations in traditional disciplines of scholarly inquiry. Whatever their orientation, these analyses share a recognition of historically prevalent inequities that place sharp limits on women’s access to knowledge, power, and wealth. Among social scientists, examinations of such inequities have shaped the debate about gender differences and assumptions that difference (actual or assumed) implies the superiority of what is male, or at least that what is male is normative.

The research reported in this paper was supported by grants to Mahzarin Banaji from the National Science Foundation (SBR-9422241 and SBR-9709924) and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Cattell Fund, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to Kristi Lamm. We thank Siri Carpenter and Richard Hackman for their helpful comments on a previous draft.

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    Kristi Lemm & Mahzarin R. Banaji

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Lemm, K., Banaji, M.R. (1999). Unconscious attitudes and beliefs about women and men. In: Pasero, U., Braun, F. (eds) Wahrnehmung und Herstellung von Geschlecht. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89014-6_18

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