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Individual and Situational Factors Related to Young Womenâs Likelihood of Confronting Sexism in Their Everyday Lives
Factors related to young womenâs reported likelihood of confronting sexism were investigated. Participants were 338 U.S. female undergraduates (Mâ=â19Â years) attending a California university. They were asked to complete questionnaire measures and to write a personal narrative about an experience with sexism. Approximately half (46%) the women reported confronting the perpetrator. Individual factors (prior experience with sexism, feminist identification, collective action) and situational factors (familiarity and status of perpetrator, type of sexism) were tested as predictors in a logistic regression. Women were less likely to report confronting sexism if (1) they did not identify as feminists, (2) the perpetrator was unfamiliar or high-status/familiar (vs. familiar/equal-status), or (3) the type of sexism involved unwanted sexual attention (vs. sexist comments)