Many Women Workers Have Suspected That Their Work Has Been

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Essay

Many women workers have suspected that their work has been judged less positively simply because it was done by a woman. Is there any psychological research that would justify that suspicion? Discuss.

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Definitions:

Iris

The colorful segment of the eye that modulates pupil dimension and the level of light that gets in.

Trichromatic Receptor Theory

A theory of color vision stating that the human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitivities to light wavelengths, corresponding to red, green, and blue colors.

Negative Afterimages

Visual illusions that occur when looking away after staring at an image for a period, resulting in seeing a complementary color or shadow of the original.

Color Receptors

Photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye responsible for detecting color.