How We See Us: An Examination of Factors Shaping the Appraisal of Stereotypical Media Images of Black Women among Black Adolescent Girls
AbstractThe presence of stereotypical images of Black women in media has been well-documented throughout the literature. Existing evidence has indicated that these images contribute to a wide range of negative psychological and behavioral consequences for Black women and girls including decreased self-esteem, poorer interpersonal relationships and adverse mental health. However, despite the prevalence of stereotypical portrayals of Black women perpetuated in the media, evidence suggests that many Black adolescent girls are often resilient to the media’s effects. Prior research contends that this may be due to the indiv...
Source: Sex Roles - February 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Gender Inequality Lowers Educational Aspiration for Adolescent Boys and Girls: A Multi-Level and Longitudinal Study in China
AbstractAdolescent students' educational aspiration is a crucial predictor of both concurrent academic achievement and educational attainment later in life. Past studies on educational aspiration have mostly focused on the role of individual factors and the immediate context but have neglected the role of the broader societal environment. The current study examined (1) how gender inequality shaped adolescents' long-term educational aspiration and (2) whether gender inequality affected boys and girls differently. We used the longitudinal data of the China Family Panel Studies (2010 –2014), which included a sample of 3,464...
Source: Sex Roles - January 31, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Doing and Redoing Emphasized Femininity: How Women Use Emotion Work to Manage Competing Expectations in College Hookup Culture
AbstractEmphasized femininity plays a key role in maintaining gender inequality. Yet, classic conceptualizations of emphasized femininity render it static and inflexible, and obscure women ’s agency in reconfiguring their gender performances to fit different contexts. Based on interviews with college women in the United States, we demonstrate that when faced with hookup cultures’ expectations of casualness and emotional detachment, women move between two styles of emotion work to either “do” or “redo” emphasized femininity, stretching its boundaries without disturbing the gender hierarchy. In interactions with ...
Source: Sex Roles - January 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
“I can't push off my own Mental Health”: Chilly STEM Climates, Mental Health, and STEM Persistence among Black, Latina, and White Graduate Women
AbstractDrawing on 12 semi-structured interviews with Black, Latina, and white graduate women who either continued or discontinued their STEM doctoral degrees, the present study examined the psychological impact of navigating marginalizing experiences in white male-dominated STEM environments. Using thematic analysis grounded in a social constructivist paradigm, researchers identified three emergent themes: 1) institutional challenges as contextual barriers, 2) impact on wellbeing and STEM persistence, and 3) contextual supports and coping. These findings indicate that challenging STEM encounters within the higher educatio...
Source: Sex Roles - January 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A “Chillier” Climate for Multiply Marginalized STEM Faculty Impedes Research Collaboration
AbstractResearch collaboration is key to faculty career success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Yet little research has considered how faculty from multiply marginalized identity groups experience collaboration compared to colleagues from majority groups. The present study fills that gap by examining similarities and differences in collaboration experiences of faculty across multiple marginalized groups, and the role of department climate in those experiences. A survey of STEM faculty at a large public research university found that faculty from underrepresented groups – in terms of gender, r...
Source: Sex Roles - January 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Contribution of Gender Equality to the Coexistence of Progressive Abortion and Sexual Orientation Laws
AbstractCross-nationally, attitudes toward abortion laws and laws affecting the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community covary in how progressive they are; the more legal rights one believes the LGB community should have, the more legal access to abortion one believes women should have. Based on these findings, we test the coexistence of the progressiveness of actuallaws at a cross-national level of analysis. We also explore what could be some of the dominant predictors of the covariance of these laws, which include (1) fertility demands that work against individual freedoms to behave in ways counterproductive to fertil...
Source: Sex Roles - January 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China
This study enriches the feminist literature by demonstrating the mutual construction of gender and digital technology in the domestic sphere and highlighting a new form of domestic labor divided between husbands and wives in t he digital age. This study challenges liberating and progressive myths surrounding digital technology and calls for academic reflection and public attention on its constraining and exploitative implications for women. (Source: Sex Roles)
Source: Sex Roles - January 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood
AbstractThe tasks necessary to keep a household running smoothly often go unnoticed and are referred to as invisible labor. One underlying cognitive construct that may help to quantify the mental component of invisible labor is prospective memory (PM), or memory for future actions. In the current study, parents completed self-report measures of their own PM demands, perceptions of their partners ’ PM demands, and frequency of their own and their partners’ prospective and retrospective memory failures. Mothers reported maintaining greater PM demands than did fathers, particularly for their children’s PM intentions. Fa...
Source: Sex Roles - January 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Gender Performativity and Postfeminist Parenting in Children ’s Television Shows
This study provides an important contribution to existing literature o n learning gender as it demonstrates how subtle portrayals of sexism in media persist amid assumptions of gender equality within white, middle-class families in North America. (Source: Sex Roles)
Source: Sex Roles - January 10, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Ego-Centred and Partner/Activity-Focused Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Self-Esteem and Sexual Assertiveness in Cisgender Heterosexual Women
AbstractThe gendered disparity in orgasm frequency and sexual satisfaction during partnered sexual activity has implications for wellbeing, mental health, and relationship satisfaction. As such the current study investigated the role of sexual assertiveness and self-esteem as predictors of women ’s sexual satisfaction, with sexual script theory offering a theoretical framework which may illuminate the problematic female sexual role. It was hypothesised that sexual assertiveness would mediate the positive relationship between self-esteem and both ego-centred and partner/activity-focused se xual satisfaction. Cross-section...
Source: Sex Roles - January 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Correction to: In Their Footsteps or Shadow? Gender Differences in Choosing a STEM Major as a Function of Sibling Configuration and Older Sibling ’s Gender and Math Ability
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Source: Sex Roles - December 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Gender Differences in the Work and Home Spheres for Teachers, and Longitudinal Associations with Depressive Symptoms in a Swedish Cohort
AbstractThe high level of stress among teachers is a frequently reported problem globally but less is known about how demands and resources among teachers affect depressive symptoms, and to what extent gender differences in these conditions can explain potential differences in depressive symptoms. The present study investigated gender differences in teachers’ self-reported depressive symptoms, and differences in their demands and resources in both work and home spheres. Associations between demands and resources, respectively, and depressive symptoms as well as gender differences in these associations were examined. R...
Source: Sex Roles - December 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
In Their Footsteps or Shadow? Gender Differences in Choosing a STEM Major as a Function of Sibling Configuration and Older Sibling ’s Gender and Math Ability
AbstractAlthough the association between siblings ’ compositional characteristics and educational performance has been extensively studied, the question of whether the features of a sibling group are related to substantive gendered educational preferences has not been examined. Our analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort (NLSY-79) Mothers and Children Files (N = 1545; 57% young women; 22% STEM major) showed that siblings’ compositional characteristics matter for STEM major preferences in college, but only for young women. Our findings indicated that women were more likely to prefer a STEM ...
Source: Sex Roles - November 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Promoting Inclusive Environments: In-group Organizational Endorsement as a Tool to Increase Feelings of Identity-Safety among Black Women
AbstractBlack women face unique and harmful biases because of their intersecting and multiple marginalized identities, which are different from those experienced by Black men and White women (Crenshaw in s. Cal. l. Rev., 65, 1467.,1991). As organizations work to create more inclusive environments for minoritized employees, it is important to test effective messaging and identity-safe cues (i.e., cues that enhance feelings of identity acceptance) for Black women. In the current research, we investigate a new identity-safe cue —in-group organizational endorsement. This technique involves two components: (a) learning ab...
Source: Sex Roles - November 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Gender and Emotions at Work: Organizational Rank Has Greater Emotional Benefits for Men than Women
AbstractThe way people feel is important for how they behave and perform in the workplace. Experiencing more positive −and less negative−emotions at work is often associated with greater status and power. But there may be differences in how men and women feel at work, particularly at different levels in their organizations. Using data from a nation-wide sample of working adults, we examine differences in the em otions that men and women experience at work, how gender interacts with rank to predict emotions, if the association between gender and emotions is accounted for by emotional labor demands, and if this relations...
Source: Sex Roles - November 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
