Hostile and benevolent sexism in teenagers. An ethnocultural approach

Nowadays, despite of the advances realized about gender, sexism is a reality that repeats itself everyday. Nevertheless, not every forms of sexism are similar, and sometimes they can happen unnoticed. So, the aim of this research is to determine the degree of hostile sexism (H.S.) and benevolent sexims (S.B.) presented by teenagers with ethnic and cultural diversity, keeping the variables of sex, grade and cultural group in mind. They involved a total of 1027 students of secondary school (549 boys and 478 girls) aged between 12 and 19 years. For this research we used the ambivalent sexism inventory (ISA). The results shows gender significance regarding the SB; by Subjects differences are evident between the first two years and 4th of ESO; on cultural groups is axiomatic for both sexisms, being Roma which explicitly reflects a difference compared to the majority cultural group (payo) and the immigrant group.