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Is It Better to Know?

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Why Would Women Deny Dunder Discrimination?

People in Russia were more likely to think their country was a bastion of gendearequality, while people in sweden felt their nation was rife with sexism. Sweden was ranked the fourth most gender equal country in the world. Russia was ranked eighty first. There's a puzzle here. Why would people believe something that isn't true? If you're a white person in a races country, denying racism can allow you to avoid making changes to a system that works for you. If you're a man, denying sexism conveniently allows you to perpetuate patriarchal attitudes. And we found that was especially true in places where gendera inequality is a really big problem. Jimmie has looked at other group in...

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