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349 ABA Journal, 193 AboveTheLaw.com, 121b Abzug, bella, 1, 13 accumulation of disadvantage, 5 Adams, natalie g., 67 African Americans, 14 Akbari, Anna, 121b Ally McBeal (television series), 111b, 189–191 ambition, 74 American bar Association, 157, 234 American bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, 193 American Lawyer (magazine), 142 American Psycho (film), 189b Andrea (case study subject), 185–186 Angelou, Maya, 275 anger: ball-breakers, 99; black women, 234; crying, 119b; don’t serve your anger hot, 295; latinas, 242; manage your anger, 98–102, 208 “angry black woman,” 223, 230–234 Aquino, Karl, 78 Archie comic books, 62 Armsbary, Sarah McArthur, 129 Asian American women, 246–252; competence , 246, 257; diversity among, 225; “forever foreign” experience, 224; leadership, 246; Maternal Wall bias, 250–251; office housework, 249; passivity, 249, 250; Prove-it-Again! bias, 246–248; self-promotion, 249; stereotypes of, 247b, 248, 249–250, 253; tightrope bias, 248–250; “too feminine” problem, 248–249, 257; “too masculine” problem, 249–250; tug of War bias, 251–252 assertiveness: black women, 232–234, 257; femininity, 67; gender policing , 69; masculinity, 32, 67; rough elbows, 72 assignments, getting good, 276b Assistant box, 67 Athena Factor, 186–187 Atlantic (magazine), 129 attractiveness, 81 Australia, 188 Autodesk, 69 automatic associations, 14, 41–42 babcock, linda, 8 bacevich, Andrew, 60 badass women, 16 baenninger, Mary Ann, 49 bagel trap, 149, 167b balance: balancing femininity with masculinity, 61, 74–75, 83, 93–94, 185–186, 295; conflicts over work-life balance, 201–203; Prove-it-Again! bias, 61; tightrope bias, 74–75, 83, 93–94; tug of War bias, 201–203 ball-breakers, 99 bank of America, 98 baret, Jean (actually Jeanne), 180 barres, ben (formerly barbara bares), 24b Index Page numbers followed by a “b” indicate boxes. 350 • Index barry, James (Margaret Ann bulkey), 181b barsh, Joanna, 55 bartlett, Josiah (fictional character), 35 bartlett, Katherine t., 81 bartz, Carol, 33, 69, 175 batlan, Felice, 191–192 beale, Frances, 222 belkin, lisa, 166 benard, Stephen, 11, 133, 199 benevolent sexism, 64–65, 133 bennet, elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice character), 63 bennet, Jane (Pride and Prejudice character), 63 berdahl, Jennifer, xxii, 76–78 beth (interviewee), 184–185 bettis, Pamela J., 67 betty Crockerdom, 159 bianca (Taming of the Shrew character ), 62–63 bias: descriptive bias (see descriptive bias); explicit bias, 14; gender bias (see gender bias); implicit bias, 14, 299, 301; intent, 15; “lack of fit” between assumptions about a group and requirements for a role, 41; lowered performance, 50–51; prescriptive bias (see prescriptive bias); unconscious, 14–15, 29; why biases arise, 40–42 biernat, Monica, 153 “bitch is the new black” (Saturday Night Live [SNL] sketch), 74 bitchiness, 72–74, 91 black women, 226–238; anger, 234; “angry black woman,” 223, 230–234; assertiveness, 232–234, 257; bonding by sharing personal information, 236–237; callbacks, 226; clothes, 232; committee work, 231; competence, 226, 257; confidence, 258; conflict between femmes and tomboys, 237; diversity among, 225; double jeopardy , 222, 228, 230; empathy, 237; homemaker role, 222; Jezebel stereotype , 254; likeability vs. respect, 231; masculine traits, 231, 232; Maternal Wall bias, 224, 234–236; office housework , 231; percentage reporting being married, 235; performance evaluations, 228, 229; prescriptive bias, 234–235; Prove-it-Again! bias, 224, 226–230; race vs. gender as source of identity, 222–223, 331n11; racism, experience of, 237–238; selfesteem , 258; self-promotion, 232; sexual harassment, 253–254; “shifting standards,” 229; stereotypes of, 221–222, 223b, 233, 252, 254; Stolen idea phenomenon (“butterfly syndrome ”), 229–230; tightrope bias, 224, 230–234; “too feminine” problem , 232, 233, 257; “too masculine” problem, 231, 232; tug of War bias, 222–223, 236–238 blacks, respect to, 231 blair, Cherie booth, 147 blair, tony, 147 bogart, humphrey, 287 Bossypants (Fey), 127 bowie, David, 61–62 boy george (performer), 61–62 brennan, William, 133 brescoll, Victoria, 99–100 brewer, Marilynn, 34 brockovich, erin, 81 brokaw, Katherine, 127–128 brown, helen gurley, 16b brown, Margaret Wise, 144b brzezinski, Mika, 12, 109, 283b bullies, dealing with, 53, 278 burnout from Prove-it-Again! bias, 49–51, 293 burns, ursula, 100, 266 business casual clothes, 82 butler, Adam, 147 butler, Judith, 62, 85 callbacks, 132, 226 Calvert, Cynthia thomas, 130–131, 172 Carbado, Devon, 62, 180, 182 career advice: assumptions underlying, 65; don’t hesitate to talk to a career coach, 155–156; “dress-for-success” literature, 81; personal decision making , 15–18; rule breaking, 17–18; shifting perspectives on, 10; typical literature about, 7–9, 30...

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