Citation

Vandenbossche L, Spruyt B, Keppens G. Young 2018; 26(1): 51-69.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Tidskriftforeningen Young, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1103308817697240

PMID

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Abstract

Over the past few decades the position of women in Western societies has substantially improved in several domains. However, persistent inequalities remain and gender prejudice is thought to play a key role in this. In this article, we contribute to the literature which holds that in current Western societies, gender prejudice manifests itself in a more 'benevolent' form which encompasses subjectively favourable but patronizing attitudes towards women. We investigated the distribution of hostile sexism (HS) and benevolent sexism (BS) towards women amongst a large sample of Flemish adolescents (N = 952). We found that while HS towards women is most prevalent amongst boys in technical and vocational education, girls in technical and vocational education also comply with macho culture. Moreover, these less educated girls also display the most BS towards women.

Keywords Survey research, hostile and benevolent sexism, traditional gender roles, Belgium, Adolescents

Language: en