So long as women stick to their traditional caring roles, they can bask in the stereotype of the ‘wonderful’ woman – caring, nurturing, supportive and the needful recipients of men’s knightly chivalry – without whom no man is complete. But the woman who seeks nontraditional high-status and high-power roles risks triggering the hostile sexism that ‘views women as adversaries in a power struggle’.2 Hostile discrimination against women in the workplace is intentionally and consciously done. It can involve ‘segregation, exclusion, demeaning comments, harassment, and attack.’3 It’s still with us.
