Gender Inequality

Workplace discrimination is more accepted by those who view men and women as fundamentally different

Applicants fill out forms during a job fair at the Southeast LA-Crenshaw WorkSource Center in Los Angeles November 20, 2009. In a depressed neighborhood in the City of Angels, hundreds of good jobs appeared to fall from the sky last week. Young and middle-aged Los Angeles residents, mostly blacks and Hispanics, lined up down the block at an employment office for more than 600 jobs, paying $14 an hour and higher with free healthcare, at new JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels downtown. Picture taken November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni   (UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS)

'Gender essentialists' don’t oppose gender equality simply because they are conservative or generically anti-egalitarian. Image: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Cordelia Fine
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
Nick Haslam
Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
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