In the United States, women’s persistent gains in structural power may cause backlash among those motivated to preserve the status quo. The proposed study examines the conditions that prompt men and women to endorse sexism and promote gender stereotypes. System justification theory proposes that people are motivated to justify the socio-political system that governs them and threats to the stability of their system can increase individual’s motivated defenses. I expect men to show the strongest motivated defenses when the hierarchy is threatened or viewed as unstable, because to protect group-based interests men will reinforce the legitimacy of the system through stronger endorsement of system defenses. In contrast, women will show the strongest system defenses when the hierarchy is viewed as stable, to avoid feeling trapped in an unchanging system that oppresses them. To test these ideas, 430 men and women were exposed to a gender status hierarchy that was portrayed as stable or unstable and then they responded to several measures of sexism and gender stereotypes. Support for the hypothesis was only found on one measure of gender stereotypes. Men reported more system justifying stereotypes of traditional women in the unstable condition, while women showed the opposite pattern. Exploratory results demonstrate that men’s and women’s reports of agentic stereotypes for traditional and nontraditional women depended on whether they were exposed to a stable or unstable gender hierarchy. Future directions and limitations are discussed in consideration of these exploratory findings.

El objetivo principal de este trabajo de investigación es el análisis de los personajes femeninos de la serie Anne with an E y la representación del empoderamiento de la mujer. Este estudio se llevará a cabo mediante el análisis del arco de transformación de los personajes y el vestuario, elementos que identificarán su evolución respecto al empoderamiento de la mujer. Asimismo, es importante resaltar que la serie está ambientada a finales del siglo XIX, época con muchos estereotipos y limitaciones para el rol de la mujer. En la serie, los personajes luchan por empoderar a la mujer pese al contexto en el que se encuentran. Para este estudio se utilizarán guías de análisis de empoderamiento fememino, arco de transformación y vestuario. De esta manera, se podrá comprobar si los personajes cumplen con la representación de empoderamiento de la mujer en el siglo XIX. / The main objective of this research work is the analysis of the female characters of the series Anne with an E and the representation of the empowerment of women. This study will be carried out through the analysis of the transformation arc of the characters and the costumes, elements that will identify their evolution regarding the empowerment of women. Likewise, it is important to note that the series is set at the end of the 19th century, a time with many stereotypes and limitations for the role of women. In the series, the characters struggle to empower women despite the context in which they find themselves. For this study, female empowerment analysis guides, transformation arc and wardrobe will be used. In this way, it will be possible to check if the characters comply with the representation of the empowerment of women in the 19th century. / Trabajo de investigación