While there are many preconceived notions on gender inequality, many fail to analyze the implicit impact that this injustice has on society. The Private Roots of Public Action by authors Nancy Burns, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Sidney Verba is a collective study on the impact that gender has on political participation, as well as the role that collective inequalities such as race, ethnicity, and upbringing further shift the impact of gender discrimination itself. Although explicit discrimination and bias is discussed, the authors regard these topics as supplementary to the implicit impact on each individual woman. This implicit impact consists of internalized discouragement that women experience that effectively subdues many women to avoid political
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For example, the concept of implicit and explicit discrimination is greatly emphasized and compared. While the two ideas both regard discrimination based on gender, implicit discrimination refers to internalized social mores that prevent women from voting. While the explicit or outward discrimination is also an issue, The Private Roots of Public Action addresses implicit discrimination as much more severe in itself, as it is much more muted and undetectable. A direct example from the book reads, “...the implicit message transmitted to women by the dearth of women in the most visible and powerful political positions in the United States: ‘Politics is not my world.’” This quote is analytical of the psychological and internalized standards that society has set for women submerging themselves into a political atmosphere. This view is juxtaposed by the following quote that is included right after the aforementioned, “women have been enfranchised, and social mores have changed, but the implicit lesson that politics is a male domain is still taught in various ways.” While the authors are willing to make the concession and the comparison of society becoming much more inclusive regarding different genders, the idea of explicit rejection and discrimination is juxtaposed to the idea of the implicit and internalized inequitableness of American society and how accepted gender integration really is regarding political
For example, the concept of implicit and explicit discrimination is greatly emphasized and compared. While the two ideas both regard discrimination based on gender, implicit discrimination refers to internalized social mores that prevent women from voting. While the explicit or outward discrimination is also an issue, The Private Roots of Public Action addresses implicit discrimination as much more severe in itself, as it is much more muted and undetectable. A direct example from the book reads, “...the implicit message transmitted to women by the dearth of women in the most visible and powerful political positions in the United States: ‘Politics is not my world.’” This quote is analytical of the psychological and internalized standards that society has set for women submerging themselves into a political atmosphere. This view is juxtaposed by the following quote that is included right after the aforementioned, “women have been enfranchised, and social mores have changed, but the implicit lesson that politics is a male domain is still taught in various ways.” While the authors are willing to make the concession and the comparison of society becoming much more inclusive regarding different genders, the idea of explicit rejection and discrimination is juxtaposed to the idea of the implicit and internalized inequitableness of American society and how accepted gender integration really is regarding political