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Why women – including feminists – are still attracted to 'benevolently sexist' men

  • Written by Pelin Gül, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Iowa State University
What sort of signal does holding a door for a woman send?KOLOTAILO LIDIIA

If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?

Is it an innocuous act of courtesy? Or is it a sexist insult to her strength and competence?

Social psychologists who describe this behavior as “benevo...

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