The Interface Between Racism and Sexism

American university students (N = 3,706) completed a questionnaire assessing their attitudes in relation to racism and sexism. Factor and correlation analyses revealed that all three subdimensions of sexism were strongly and significantly related to all three subdimensions of racism and that the subdimensions of sexism and racism were strongly correlated with covariates such as educational achievement, religious affiliation, political ideology, general anti-egalitarianism, academic competence, and gender. However, hierarchical regression and structural equation analysis revealed that, even after controlling for all of these covariates, there was still a strong residual correlation between the latent constructs of racism and sexism that could not be accounted for, and that this correlation was equally strong for men and women.