Quota women are threatening to men: unveiling the (counter) stereotypization of beneficiaries of affirmative action policies

Article Article scientifique Article Quota women are threatening to men: unveiling the (counter) stereotypization of beneficiaries of affirmative action policies eng 2017 author Faniko Klea 603317 author Burckhardt Till 656736 author Sarrasin Oriane author Lorenzi-Cioldi Fabio 26433 author Sørensen Siri Øyslebø author Iacoviello Vincenzo 0000-0002-6654-8330 633991 author Mayor Eric 107-116 10.1024/1421-0185/a000195 1421-0185 https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1024/1421-0185/a000195 Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed that participants – especially women – perceived women in decision-making positions as more masculine (i.e., agentic) than feminine (i.e., communal). Study 2 (N = 239) showed that different types of AA had different effects on the attribution of gender stereotypes to AAP beneficiaries: Women benefiting from a quota policy were perceived as being more communal than agentic, while those benefiting from weak preferential treatment were perceived as being more agentic than communal. Furthermore, we examined how the belief that AAPs threaten men's access to decision-making positions influenced the attribution of these traits to AAP beneficiaries. The results showed that men who reported high levels of perceived threat, as compared to men who reported low levels of perceived threat, attributed more communal than agentic traits to the beneficiaries of quotas. These findings suggest that AAPs may have created a backlash against its beneficiaries by emphasizing gender-stereotypical or counterstereotypical traits. Thus, the framing of AAPs, for instance, as a matter of enhancing organizational performance, in the process of policy making and implementation, may be a crucial tool to countering potential backlash. Stereotypes Communality Agency Threat Backlash Affirmative action policies Dewey 150 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 601 Groupe de recherche sur les relations intergroupes et les représentations sociales Swiss Journal of Psychology 76 3 9165cc55-531f-49ad-8016-935577c93d1d Article (Published version) Restricted Fanikoetal._2017.pdf 174508 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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