Events like to repeat themselves. You've probably heard stories about women who marry an alcoholic, get divorced, get married again... and again he turns out to be an alcoholic. Then say, that this it has fate such a. Can blame, saying that she is so that men from her drink. It is sometimes said that she subconsciously searches for alcoholics. There is some truth in the last statement. In fact, no one, of course, is looking for an alcoholic. We're just looking for a familiar. People don't like the unknown...

How can we explain the persistence of gender hierarchy over transformnations in its socioeconomic base? Part of the answer lies in the mediation of gender inequality by taken-for-granted interactional processes that rewrite inequality into new institutional arrangements. The problems of interacting cause actors to automatically sex-categorize others and, thus, to cue gender stereotypes that have various effects on interactional outcomes, usually by modifying the performance of other, more salient identities. Because changes in the status dimension of gender stereotypes lag behind changes...