Another Country: Explaining Gender Discrimination with "Culture"
Abstrakti
This paper reports a study where students from
several countries were asked to interpret short
stories presenting a career woman in a difficult
situation. The situation was sometimes interpreted
as gender discrimination, but several other
competing interpretations were offered. When
gender discrimination was mentioned, students often
asumed that the event was taking place in "another
country," usually outside the "modern western
world." These latter interpretations are further
explored in the conclusion.
