Running Head: SOCIALIZED SEXISM Abstract This paper asserts that sexism in America is socialized. Examples of sexism in America from a very young age to an old age are given to support the idea that sexism is engrained into American society in an endless loop of discrimination and harassment. Socialized Sexism Results of Yale University’s Implicit Assumption Test (IAT) On the gender test I received a score of: “You have a moderate automatic preference …showed first 75 words of 1181 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1181 total…to portray society wrong. Society is dominated by males in science and the majority of women do stay home and take care of their children. The media is not changing America on the television, simply portraying it. In the long run, these prejudices may not exist, but only if there is a mass effort on parents part to have children which are more gender neutral orientated, and if the media and schools showed these examples.