Chivalry, it appears, is far from dead聽yet William Perugini/getty
Women tend to be attracted to male chivalry even though they see it as a threat to their gender equality, according to a new study.
Men who pay for dinner and open doors for women are said to display 鈥渂enevolent sexism鈥: the attitude that women should be protected and provided for. These chivalrous acts are superficially positive, but may entrench gender inequality by positioning women as weaker and less competent, says Pelin Gul at Iowa State University.
Gul and her colleagues explored heterosexual women鈥檚 attitudes to benevolent sexism in a…
