Sex Ratios and Occupational Prestige: Three Failures to Replicate a Sexist Bias
- 1 April 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 5 (2) , 236-239
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727900500224
Abstract
An experiment reported by John Touhey (1974) suggests that as people come to expect increases in the proportion of women in a high status profession, their ratings of the prestige and desirability of that profession decreases. The present study reports three failures to replicate this finding. These failures to replicate should caution researchers regarding the generalizability of the original finding and the extent to which it can be cited as an explanation for fluctuations in occupational prestige.Keywords
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