Let's hear it for victim cards!

[merrily]

The gender bias Bernie has had to fight all his life: People trust women more. Just a few sample excerpts:

Study: Why We Think Women Are More Trustworthy Than Men
By Katy Steinmetz @katysteinmetzDec. 13, 2010

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In this month’s Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Marilyn Boltz and colleagues delve into the intersection of gender, speech patterns and deception. “We found that people perceive women to lie less than men and that they perceive men and women to tell different kinds of lies,” says Boltz, a professor of psychology at Haverford College. “And we found some effects of response timing.”

more at http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/13/study-why-we-think-women-are-more-trustworthy-than-men/

Why Women Are More Trusted Than Men, and How to Use Trust to Our Advantage

Vanessa HallBy Vanessa Hall “The Trust Lady” and author of The Truth About Trust in Business

In a recent survey by Management Today and the Institute of Leadership and Management, female CEOs were found to be more trusted than their male counterparts. In a number of sales training sessions I’ve attended over the years, women have been lauded as more trustworthy sales people than their male colleagues.

At the same time, women are more sensitive to trust and mistrust. In a survey I conducted through an independent researcher we found that only 1 in 20 women will deal with someone they like but do not trust, as opposed to 1 out of 5 men.

So what does this all mean for women in leadership?

more at http://theglasshammer.com/2011/03/11/why-women-are-more-trusted-than-men-and-how-to-use-trust-to-our-advantage/

Makeup Makes Women More Trusted
by Big Think Editors

What's the Latest Development?

Makeup not only enhances a woman's looks, it also increases people's perceptions of her likability, competence and trustworthiness, according to a new Harvard study. When 149 adults were shown pictures of females wearing varying degrees of makeup, they "judged women made up in varying intensities of luminance contrast (fancy words for how much eyes and lips stand out compared with skin) as more competent than barefaced women, whether they had a quick glance or a longer inspection."

more at http://theglasshammer.com/2011/03/11/why-women-are-more-trusted-than-men-and-how-to-use-trust-to-our-advantage/

Of course, results of studies of this kind often vary, so google for the study that best fits the card you want to play at the moment in question.

BTW, I am not excited about electing a victim the most powerful person in the world. You?

[dchill]

1. As a man, I feel that I should be offended.

But evidently I can't trust myself to know for sure.

[merrily]

2. Based on the OP articles, applying a foundation that is close to your own skin tone may help.

I recommend using a sponge.

Loved your post, btw.

[n2doc]

3. Women may be 'more trustworthy'..but a certain pantsuited one has proven themselves to not be so.n/t

[merrily]

5. PERCEIVED as more trustworthy. The only way for Bernie to fight that is to actually BE trustworthy.

Soooooo unfair!

[sarge43]

4. Apparently Steinmetz didn't spend any time in high school or in a woman's college dorm

She would have needed wellies to wade through the blood left after the back stabbings

The last time I looked women belong to the same species as men, therefore have all the characteristics as men, good and bad.

(Yes, I'm female)

[merrily]

6. The studies cited in the OP are about perception.

And, as we all know, even though males and female belong to the same species, there are differences between the gender, whether from nature or nurture, and very likely, there are differences in how they are perceived. Being women, we know that all too well.

[sarge43]

7. Also individual perceptions

Having had no sister(s), I probably have a different take on my gender than another woman who did.