Sexism--alive and very well in 21st Century America

More than half of the 60,000 respondents of an MSNBC/Elle survey said that the gender makes no difference in leadership abilities, but the half that said gender does matter also chose men as more effective leaders. Of this group, 41% of males said men make more effective leaders, and 33% of women chose men make better leaders. 75% of this group of women said they would rather work for a man than a woman.

Says Professor Janet Levy of California State University in Los Angeles: "The enemy is omnipresent cultural messages, not women themselves."

The enemy, quite simply, is sexism, both internalized and otherwise.