Question

Joseph and Tim believe that women are incompetent at work and make statements to this effect, but also make statements that indicate women must be protected. They are exhibiting:

Answer 1

Answer:

They are exhibiting: ambivalent sexism.

Explanation:

Ambivalent sexism is related to ambivalent and polarized attitudes towards women. Hostile sexism includes prejudicial attitudes or discriminatory behaviors based on the supposed inferiority or difference of women as a group, and is based on three ideas. On the one hand, a dominating paternalism that defends that women as a group are weaker, so that male figures must dominate them. On the other hand, competitive gender differentiation, according to which women and men have different qualities, qualities that guide them to the private sphere and they to the public, they to the domestic and they to govern social, political and economic institutions . And finally, heterosexual hostility, which considers that women have a sexual power that makes them dangerous and manipulative.