key people in the study of power
A New Yorker cartoon in which a male character declares to a female companion that she is really stupid and he likes that in a woman launched Janet Taylor Spence's pioneering foray into gender research. Her 1972 study (with collaborator Robert Helmreich) titled “Who likes competent women?” led to the development of the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS), which became the most frequently used measure of sexist beliefs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Spence, Janet (1923-)]
Janet Spence
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