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>> How about a broader context? (No pun intended!)
> Men and womean are made to feel inferior or somehow flawed by many features of typical Western corporate life. Conduct the same experiment and ask questions that require that an applicant be fine tuned to a particular culture, whether a national or corporate culture, and its worldview and values, and viola--I'll bet you can replicate the same results...half the people will blame themselves...and the more subtle the insult, the more grevious the injury.
I think it's important to speak of sexism, racism, etc, by itself, in such cases, rather than generalizing. They affect different people, may not use the same means, etc. For instance, discrimination based on sexual orientation is still not against the law because there's no such law. Sexism isn't racism isn't nationalism isn't religion etc.
And it's naive to say the least to blame it on Western culture. In many if not most Asian countries (which I'm more familiar with since that's where I was from) sexism is often still publicly acceptable.
