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Impacting Sexism through Social Justice Prevention: Implications at the Person and Environmental Levels

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Sexism in our society leads to multiple negative outcomes for women. Although traditional therapeutic approaches as well as preventive interventions address the specific negative outcomes of sexism, they rarely utilize a social justice approach. The deleterious effects of sexism occur complexly; sexist interpersonal events often occur within family systems that may endorse traditional gender roles, which exist within a societal and cultural context that contains sexist norms and formalized sexist policies. These multifaceted, ingrained circumstances delineate the need for preventive social justice to address sexism on multiple levels. A prevention/social justice model will be used to critique existing interventions and identify avenues for change in research and practice.

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Schwartz, J.P., Lindley, L.D. Impacting Sexism through Social Justice Prevention: Implications at the Person and Environmental Levels. J Primary Prevent 30, 27–41 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-008-0162-8

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