Investigating The Gender Gap And How That Effected The Way...

For my research paper I chose to investigate the gender gap and how that effected the way that men and women may view other races. I believe that women, due to their struggles with gender bias, will be more compassionate and less racist than men. I chose the following four articles to look into gender bias and modern racism. My four chosen articles look into the United State’s racial and gender biases compared to those around the world. In Schnake, Beal, and Ruscher’s Modern Racism and Intergroup Boas in Casual Explanation the authors begin by asking the question: â€Å"Does intergroup bias explain the racism shown by European American towards African Americans?† The researchers wanted to see if their research supported their claim that†¦show more content†¦This study simulated typical situations in American’s lives today, and these reactions showed how the modern American is actually more racist than they believe. The next article I dove into was Wingfield’s The Modern Mammy and the Angry Black Man: African American Professionals’ Experiences with Gendered Racism in the Workplace. This article posed the question: â€Å"Is there a difference between the way black men and black women are treated in the workplace? Does race/gender have an effect on the treatment of an employee?† After the initial question the author theorizes that there is a greater gender gap between men and women when the woman is black than when the woman is white. To further study this topic, the author conducted in-depth interviews with 23 black professional workers and compared the way that racism affected the men vs the women. The author would ask questions about how they were treated by different genders and races of people in their workplace. Shockingly, the author found that even though these black men and women had at least a master’s degree in their field, their race put them on a lower lev el. The author found that both black men and black women face several obstacles, but specifically the men were purposely put in awkward situations and forced to diffuse all situations at work that involved other black employees. As for black women, they were consistently talked down to and treated as though they were children