Question

At a local university, there is an opening for the Dean of Students. Of the four final applicants for the job, three are men and one is a woman. After the interviews are conducted, the selection committee (who happens to be made up entirely of men) discusses each applicant. One committee member comments that he "wouldn’t want to see an overly emotional person" in charge of their students. This could indicate that ____ is taking place.

Answer 1

Answer:

Discrimination

Explanation:

Discrimination is the unfair treatment or bias towards a group of people due to factors that are beyond their control (common ones are sex, gender, race, disability, etc).

Because society's gender roles, however true or untrue, believe that women are more emotional, delicate, maternal, etc, we can assume that in this hypothetical scenario, the committee member is biased (discriminatory) towards the female applicant due to stereotypes applied to the female population.

The voice of the female population is not being recognized in this scenario because the committee consists of only men, which means that likely (but no always) no one will be defending the female applicant from the discrimination, and she will not receive the same level of consideration as the male applicants.