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…[M]ost women, researchers suspect, don’t realize how much they are influenced by social expectations. The Stanford social psychologist John Jost suggests that “women in general are relatively unaware of their status as an oppressed group,” and consequently, “hold many beliefs that are consonant with their own oppression.” He also suggests that what he calls “gender socialization practices” are “so thorough in their justification of inequality” that girls and women end up believing that the existing system of inequality and discrimination is appropriate and right. In other words, “members of oppressed groups internalize aspects of their oppression, coming to believe in the legitimacy of their own inferiority.