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Objectification suppresses women’s desire to engage in social activism, study finds

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A new study has shown that objectification can make college-aged women more accepting of the status quo and less likely to engage in social activism, potentially contributing to gender inequality. “My research focused on self-objectification, which is a self-perspective that many women adopt as a primary consequence of regular encounters…

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