Double binds, stereotypes, and gendered party ideologies all influence the voter’s perception of a candidate running for office. Stereotypes are quick, rapid based judgments made when evaluating a person (Lammers, Gordijn & Otten, 2009). Typically, when these rapid based judgments are created, they are often based on short glimpses of a person’s characteristics and positively or negatively lead to evaluation (Lammers, Gordijn & Otten, 2009; Sanbonmatsu, 2002). What happens when these stereotypes are formulated, it is hard to let go of the initial evaluation (Olivola & Todorov, 2010; Schneider, 2014). There are certain trait characteristics that are stereotypically seen to be dominant of female candidates. Stereotypically, female candidates …show more content…
They will ultimately lead to the existence of double binds, where a woman to be deemed fit for a leadership positions, needs to maintain an unrealistic balance between feminine and masculine (Jamieson, 1995). In trying to balance this line, women are seen incompetent or too aggressive. Either way, women do not usually succeed in the equilibrium. During the 2008 Presidential Election when Sarah Palin was named the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, the presence of gender stereotypes and double binds was abundantly clear to voters watching the news. Sarah Palin received six times more media attention then her Democratic competition Joe Biden; however, little of the attention focused on her leadership experience, or invigorating the Republican party, rather it discussed her appearance and incompetence (Wasburn & Wasburn, 2011). Sarah Palin was described as a strong woman because she was a mother who decided against an abortion when doctors discovered her youngest son was going to be born with Down syndrome. However, it was concluded the power and time constraints of the Vice Presidency would render it impossible for her to be a good mother (Carlin & Winfrey, 2009). This put Palin in a clear double standard claiming she is a strong leader because she is a mother, but she is a weak leader because she is a
Leslie doesn 't embody the typical “candidate 's-wife” stereotype of not being much more than an arm piece or a symbol of family values, which she points
I consider you have exposed a great discussion. To understand why people behave a certain way we use something called attributional processes. Frequently, we tend to leap to conclusions that people’s behavior is due to some characteristics of their personality rather than to some aspects of the circumstances in which we are. Stereotypes are dispositional negative attributions, (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2007). Stanger and Crandal (2000) consider that it seems that stigma develops out of an initial, collectively held motivation to avoid danger followed often by an exaggerated perception of features that promotes threat and accompanied by social sharing of these perceptions with others. What is more, they conclude that stigmas for the most part
Specifically, that individuals may observe controversial gender dynamics in their home, workplace, or church which makes these stereotypes to seem reasonable when thinking about politics. Women may also be under pressure to be overqualified for a position simple because she is a woman due to these types of social norms that they are surrounded by. However, Brook`s research shows that male candidates suffer more than female candidates when it comes to inexperience. Specifically, people were more not more or less likely to support the inexperienced woman candidate overall, but they rated woman more highly on specific characteristics. Those characteristics being honestly and productivity in Washington. She believes that women are not in the disadvantage in politics at all and that if more women knew this perhaps more would be running for
To start off, I found your journal entry very interesting. Additionally, I liked how you decided to do your response in a different approach than the way many others or I did. Rather than just explaining what we think when we meet someone with a different speech pattern, you decided to describe your experience of being the victim of being the one who was judged and bullied. Your story was very touching, and I am glad you are now proud of your accent and the way you speak.
On a daily bases people make excuses for everything. Everything meaning our actions and the things that we say. Common things that we make excuse for deal with sexist, racist, and heterosexist comments. Sexist is classified as saying that one sex is better than the other. An example of this is someone calling a male or female something that they are not. I do not like this because we are all humans and deserve to be respected and not called something that is degrading. We all know that racist is downgrading one race compared to another. An example of this is, saying that all black people are loud and ghetto. We all act the same but some people do certain things different from others. That’s just there way of living. I do not think that just because one person acts one way the whole race does also. Heterosexist is defined as heterosexuality is better than all other expressions. An example of this would be talking about how a guy dresses and calling him gay. I do not agree with this as well because it is good to stand out and be your own person not matter how others see you.
The broker, the messenger, and the architect believe that their inferences would convince anyone that the defendant is guilty; however, their conclusions aren’t plausible and contain many inferential errors. Stereotypes often influence opinions and attitudes about individuals. For instance, the broker was convinced that the defendant was a criminal because he was from the “slums.” However, the laborer refuted his argument when he revealed that he was raised in the “slums.” The laborer proved that people don’t always become the product of their environment. For the switch knife argument, the architect claimed the knife wasn’t special, and anyone could have the exact knife. He demonstrated his argument when he pulled out a replica of the knife
Typically, female candidates are stereotyped to be better suited for certain policy areas like healthcare, education, and women’s issues (Carlin & Winfrey, 2009; Dolan, 2014; Dolan, 2010; Dolan, 2005; Falk, 2013; King & Matland, 2003; Lammers, Gordijn & Otten, 2009; Sanbonmatsu & Dolan, 2009; Sanbonmatsu, 2002; Schneider, 2014; Winfrey, Warner & Banwar, 2014). While men on the other hand, are seen to be better equipped to discuss issues like taxes, military, and the economy (Dolan, 2014; Dolan, 2010; Dolan, 2005; Falk, 2013; King & Matland, 2003; Sanbonmatsu & Dolan, 2009; Sanbonmatsu, 2002; Schneider, 2014; Winfrey, Warner & Banwar, 2014). Moreover, women are stereotypically seen as more compassionate and honest than their male counterparts, framing women as being too emotional and incapable for the job (Curnalia & Mermer, 2014; Dolan, 2014; Dolan, 2010; Schneider & Bos,
Yesterday, I was playing Xbox with my friend, Anja. On my left side stood my laptop connected to a small speaker. I put on a song on Spotify, and leant back to look at the TV-screen. We listened to some other songs, until my mother came home and I had to turn it off to ask her something. When I was done talking to her, I sat back in the couch without putting on the music again. After about five minutes, a song howled out of the speaker with no one around the laptop to put it on play. My friend and I looked around like Timon from the Lion King and we were freaked out by the situation. I told Anja about another time something like this happened, when I was home alone in my room to put some make-up on. I put a song on my stereo from my Spotify
Using gender-based stereotypes to frame coverage of female politicians highlights information irrelevant to a candidate's qualifications. This stereotyping also reinforces negative perceptions such as a whether or not females have the competence and temperament to serve in the highest political
Drawing on concepts from social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954), it is possible that when considering the possibility of running for office, potential female candidates make comparisons between themselves and women serving at higher levels of office. If these exemplars are very qualified, this may be one of the reasons potential female candidates believe they are not qualified enough to run. In other words, extremely well qualified women serving in office may actually deter potential female candidates from running.
First impressions, whether positive or negative, can play a critical role in someone’s judgement of other people. Stereotypes can cause a rush to judgement leading to an inaccurate conclusion. There are six common errors in judgement that can affect your critical thinking process (Bethel University, 2013).
The Society is all the same and isolated.“I can tie them myself she complained and I always have… I don't like hair ribbons. I am glad I only have to wear them one more year.” (Lowry 39). I believe that every girl should not need to wear their hair the same length and style.“Did you know that there were really elephants? Live ones?......”Right she said skeptically. Sure Jonas” (Lowry 95I love Elephants and other “unknown” and “fake” animals that are not known there.“How could you describe a sled without describing a hill and snow; and how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height and wind or that feathery, magical cold?” (Lowry 85)Snow and seasons are so fun and beautiful in their own ways and I feel that it would be torture to live without them.
Politics are generally a male’s job; the Inter-Parliamentary Union says the U.S. is 95th in the world based on how many women are in political positions of power. This frightening statistic is in part due to the bias that political women don’t act like “women”. In fact, Jennifer Lawless, director of Women & Politics Institute, supports this by saying, women in politics are considered 70% less compassionate than women in general and 90% less gentle and loving. This striking statistic shows just how misunderstood women in politics are. Scholar, Olivia Bartruff, says that the lack of understanding of political women causes women to look past politics as a field. Women see the political field as being more of a man’s field, so they don’t try to infiltrate it. Even though, the Women & Politics Institute School of Public Affairs says that women are just as likely as their male counterparts to win, but 16% less likely to consider running for an office position. Women don’t believe that they can win, so they don’t try; yet as Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet, said, ”none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.” Politics is run by men, and although women have just as good of odds to win as men do, biases are restricting them from even
As our first female presidential candidate, it was controversial towards her ability be competent to manage a country. Although many people are pursuing gender equality in America, they still hold prejudices and discrimination towards women because of their “vulnerable” image. It is not surprising that more than half of white men choose to vote for Trump instead of Clinton by Christine Williams 's concept of Glass ceiling & glass escalator. Williams argued that women in the United States face the predicament of Glass Ceiling, “invisible barriers” that restrains their promotion in male-dominated jobs. On contrary, men are considered to be Glass Escalators in which they are push up in their professions by invisible pressures. (Williams ) Under this situation, an occupational segregation exists: women and men hold the same job title at an individual establishment or company, but actually do different jobs. People generally
The use of stereotypes is a major way in which we simplify our social world; since they reduce the amount of processing (i.e. thinking) we have to do when we meet a new person. By stereotyping we conclude that a person has a whole variety of characteristics and abilities that we assume all members of that group have. “Stereotypes lead to what we social characterization, which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes (i.e. “them” and “us” mentality) which leads to in-groups and out-groups” (McLeod). A