Women unsettled by ambiguous sexist signals.

The article reports on the study led by Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton at the University of California, Berkeley which allowed the students to infer the examiner's view of women. The study asked 170 undergraduate females to take a written test. They had progressive decor such as overtly sexist posters of women and breast cancer awareness banner, or neutral objects such as a stack of papers. The study suggests that black people prefer overtly racist whites than with those who behave ambiguously.