Women's reactions to ingroup members who protest discriminatory treatment: The importance of beliefs about inequality and response appropriateness |
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| Authors: | Donna M Garcia Michael T Schmitt Nyla R Branscombe Naomi Ellemers |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Guelph, Canada;2. Simon Fraser University, Canada;3. University of Kansas, USA;4. Leiden University, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Our goal was to identify factors that shape women's responses to ingroup members who protest gender discrimination. We predicted and found that women who perceived gender discrimination as pervasive regarded a protest response as being more appropriate than a no protest response and expressed greater liking and less anger towards a female lawyer who protested rather than did not protest an unfair promotion decision. Further, beliefs about the appropriateness of the response to discrimination contributed to evaluations of the protesting lawyer. Perceptions that the complaint was an appropriate response to the promotion decision led to more positive evaluations of an ingroup discrimination protester. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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