Why so slow?
Subtitle: the advancement of women
By: Virginia Valian.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women -- Psychological aspects; Sexism; Women in the professions; Sex differences (Psychology)
Description: Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implicit hypotheses about gender differences - gender schemas - that create small sex differences in characteristics, behaviors, perceptions, and evaluations of men and women.

Those small imbalances accumulate to advantage men and disadvantage women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-383) and indexes.