An analysis of data from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study revealed that women who feel powerless tend to endorse benevolent sexism more strongly. When their feelings of powerlessness increase, their endorsement of benevolent sexism at a later time also tends to rise. The research was recently published in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Sexism is the belief that one gender is inferior to the other. It manifests in various forms, including institutional sexism, where policies and laws disadvantage one gender; interpersonal sexism, involving discriminatory behavior between i…