Despite experiencing gender-based violence more frequently and more severely, victims of sexual harassment and domestic abuse from lower socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds are disproportionately neglected and mistreated. Across four studies (total N = 3052), we show that people incorrectly believe that harassment and abuse are less harmful for women in poverty than for women in affluence. This thick skin bias then leads people to neglect lower-SES victims because they think they are less harmed by gender-based violence: participants thought that lower-SES victims needed less help from bystanders and less interpersonal support from friends and family. The neglect low-SES victims of gender-based violence often encounter may thus arise at least in part from biased beliefs about their lower vulnerability to harm, suggesting that future interventions to reduce class-based disparities in harassment and abuse outcomes may benefit from targeting stereotypes about the “thick-skinned poor.”

尽管更频繁、更严重地遭受基于性别的暴力，来自较低社会经济地位 (SES) 背景的性骚扰和家庭虐待的受害者被过度忽视和虐待。在四项研究（总N  = 3052）中，我们表明人们错误地认为骚扰和虐待对贫困妇女的危害小于对富裕妇女的危害。这种脸皮厚的偏见然后导致人们忽视社会经济地位较低的受害者，因为他们认为他们受到基于性别的暴力的伤害较小：参与者认为社会经济地位较低的受害者需要较少的旁观者帮助以及朋友和家人的人际支持。因此，性别暴力的低社会经济地位受害者经常遇到的被忽视可能至少部分是由于他们对伤害的脆弱性较低的偏见信念，这表明未来减少骚扰和虐待结果中基于阶级的差异的干预措施可能会受益于针对刻板印象关于“厚脸皮的穷人”。