Realistic conflict theory is intergroup hostility that stems from competition and confliction over limited resources. It further explains the feelings of prejudice and discrimination that accompany intergroup hostility. Gender could be considered an intergroup hostility. Gender creates competition and confliction in certain areas in a relationship. Social roles and hostility create disadvantages for the group and their relations. Fritsche and Jonas (2005) believe that gender group relations should depend on the existing status differences between both sexes within the society they reside in. Due to this, women believe that their presence in a woman group is more positive than males’ in a male group. A woman in a women’s group would feel equal
