Discrimination Against Women: Prevalence, Consequences, Remedies

by Hope Landrine and Elizabeth Adele Klonoff

Book Overview

How frequently do women experience sexist discrimination? Does sexism have an effect on women′s physical or mental health? How can we measure the impact of sexism, both blatant and subtle, on women exposed to it? Discrimination against Women provides answers to these questions.

Part One offers an empirically validated scale for measuring the health effects of sexism, and presents the findings which resulted from using the scale...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761909540
• ISBN13: 9780761909545
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"