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Gender, Ethnicity, and Power
Author(s) -
Pratto Felicia,
Espinoza Penelope
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/0022-4537.00240
Subject(s) - ethnic group , power (physics) , categorization , inequality , psychology , social psychology , gender studies , developmental psychology , sociology , mathematics , computer science , mathematical analysis , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , anthropology
Group‐based power is generally associated with three types of group distinctions: adult‐child, gender, and ethnicity. We argue that gender‐based power is not comparable to ethnic‐based power, in part because the forms and degree of institutional discrimination experienced by men and women of subordinate ethnic groups are not similar to one another, and in part because stereotypes and categorization processes pertaining to gender are not comparable across ethnic groups. Finally, in experiments using college students as participants, we show that whether applicants are placed into occupations that would enhance or attenuate group‐based inequality depends jointly on job applicants' ethnicity and gender. Implications for theories of inequality based on gender and ethnicity and the relationship of gendered power to other group‐based forms of power are discussed.