Extended information on the readings, comments and reviews are included when available. The advancement of women. Our schemas about males and females directly include expectations about their professional competence and they bias our interpretation of actual performance. Gender schemas are held by both males and females. The content of gender schemas is widely shared throughout a culture.
Most experiments show no differences in the judgments males and females make.
Schemas are cognitive in origin but have motivational and emotional consequences as well as consequences for judgments and evaluations. May Opitz et al, eds., 1986. 1900 to the present. The book is thought-provoking and was the basis for an excellent class discussion. Another mark of how powerful the book is, is that most of my students chose to focus on this book in a response paper.