Title

Tweeting about sexism is good for women’s wellbeing

Authors

Mindi D. Foster, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Department

Psychology

Department

Psychology

Abstract

Social media can be used to promote equality in a way that empowers women. When women experience sexism or unfair treatment, they can respond by tweeting about their experiences to decrease the negative effects of the incident on their well-being and mood.

Comments

This summary is part of a joint project between the Knowledge Mobilization Unit andScholars Commons at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University. Laurier promotes the use of knowledge mobilization to maximize the impact of Laurier research on public policy, professional practice and community engagement. This summary was written by Shawna Reibling.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Recommended Citation

Wilfrid Laurier University (2017). Tweeting about sexism is good for women’s wellbeing. Retrieved from http://scholars.wlu.ca/clearlanguage/