Sexism and gender

This bachelor 's thesis aims at mapping sexism among men and women in the Czech Republic as well as describing the causes of eventual differences in levels of sexism between the two. For this purpose, a newly translated 22 item ambivalent sexism inventory was used (Fiske & Glick, 1996). This inventory has been recently standardized for the Czech population. Questions concerning selected demographic characteristics were added to this questionnaire to better observe the impact of related variables on sexist attitudes. Hypothetical scenarios and other additional questions were added to the questionnaire as well to make the data more complete. The research sample consisted of 656 respondents of varying gender, age, education, place of residence and marital status. Respondents received the extended questionnaire either in paper or online form. Afterwards, an analysis of the respondents' answers was carried out. The theoretical part of this thesis is focused on defining the terms of gender and sex, introducing basic biological effects on learning gender stereotypes in contrast to the effects of socialization, definition of a stereotype as a prejudicial pattern of thinking, defining sexist behaviour and finally introducing the key theory of ambivalent sexism. The aim of the empirical part is a detailed..