The “Princess Syndrome”: An Examination of Gender Harassment on a Male-Majority University Campus
AbstractGender harassment is prevalent in contexts where women are underrepresented and negatively stereotyped, yet instances of gender harassment are often discounted as unimportant and inconsequential. The current research presents an examination of gender harassment operating on a male-majority university campus in the form of a sex-based slur known as the “Princess Syndrome.” Across two studies, the present research investigated the prevalence, meaning, and adverse consequences of the label. Study1 indicated that the label was widespread at the university: 70% of participants had heard of the label, nearly half had...
Source: Sex Roles - September 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
When Gender Matters in Scientific Communication: The Role of Generic Language
AbstractPrior research has documented gender differences in self-presentation and self-promotion. For example, a recent analysis of scientific publications in the biomedical sciences reveals that articles with women in lead author positions (first and last) included fewer positive words to describe their results than articles with men in lead author positions. Here we examined the role of gender in peer-reviewed publications in psychology, with a focus on generic language. When authors describe their results using generic statements (e.g., “Introverts and extraverts require different learning environments”), those stat...
Source: Sex Roles - August 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
These Boots Weren ’t Made for Walking: Gendered Discrepancies in Wearing Painful, Restricting, or Distracting Clothing
AbstractUsing the framework of objectification theory (Fredrickson& Roberts in Psychology of Women Quarterly 21(2): 173 –206,1997), the current studies explored how often women (vs. men) reported wearing clothing that is painful, distracting, and/or restricting (PDR clothing). Additionally, we examined differences in body surveillance (i.e., chronically monitoring the appearance of one ’s body) and body appreciation between those who reported wearing various types of PDR clothing and those who did not. In both a sample of U.S. college students (n = 545) and a broader sample of U.S. adults (n = 252), results...
Source: Sex Roles - August 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Correction to: The Gender Similarities Hypothesis: Insights From A Multilevel Analysis of High ‑Stakes Examination Results in Mathematics
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Source: Sex Roles - August 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Teen Girls ’ Experiences Negotiating the Ubiquitous Dick Pic: Sexual Double Standards and the Normalization of Image Based Sexual Harassment
AbstractA range of important studies have recently explored adult women ’s experiences of receiving unwanted dick pics (Amundsen,2020). However, to date there has been limited research that has explored teen girls ’ experiences of receiving unwanted penis images in depth. To address this gap we draw upon our findings from a qualitative study using focus group interviews and arts based drawing methods to explore social media image sharing practices with 144 young people aged 11–18 in seven secondary school s in England. We argue that being bombarded with unwanted dick pics on social media platforms like Snapchat norma...
Source: Sex Roles - July 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Changes in Female Rape Myth Acceptance Among College Students: A 20-Year Perspective
In this study, we compared changes in female rape myth acceptance (RMA) between 1998 and 2018 in two separate samples of college students from the same university in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The primary measure was the Attitudes Toward Rape Victims Scale (ARVS). First, we examined the factor structure of the ARVS with confirmatory factor analysis, finding good fit for a four-factor model comprising Assigning Blame or Responsibility to the Victim (Blame/Responsibility), Considering the Victim as Deserving of Sexual Violence (Deserving), Undermining the Victim ’s Credibility (Undermine Credibility), and Trivializing the...
Source: Sex Roles - July 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Testing the GRIP: An Empirical Examination of the Gender Roles Inhibiting Prosociality Model
AbstractAlthough men and women help others, there are systematic gender differences in the type of helping they perform. Consistent with traditional gender roles and stereotypes, men typically help in agentic ways, and women typically help in communal ways. Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior, the Gender Roles Inhibiting Prosociality model predicts that gender stereotypes about gender-inconsistent helping create negative attitudes, restrictive subjective norms, and low self-efficacy that undermine helping intentions, which, in turn, reduce engagement in gender-inconsistent helping contexts. Across three studies (N ...
Source: Sex Roles - July 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Reflections About What I Learned as an Editor Making Judgments about Gender and Gendered Contexts with a Feminist Perspective
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Source: Sex Roles - July 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Sex Object vs. Athlete: Boys ’ and Men’s Responses Toward Sexualized Male Athletes
AbstractUsing a between-participants experimental paradigm, the present study investigated U.S. adolescent boys’ (n= 96) and college men ’s (n= 194) attitudes toward media images of male athletes as well as their thoughts about the athletes. Participants viewed either sexualized (i.e., skin exposed, sexual pose) or performance (i.e., in uniform and in action poses on the field/court) images of male athletes. They then rated the athletes’ competence, esteem, and sexual appeal a nd completed a writing task about their reactions to the images. Male viewers rated the sexualized athletes lower in competence and es...
Source: Sex Roles - July 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Role of Gender and Emotionality Stigma in Perceived Parental Emotion Dysregulation and Adult Children ’s Internalizing Symptoms
AbstractBoys and girls learn early from their parents about what is appropriate and what is not in terms of emotional expression. We argue that these parental cues can lead to the formation of stigma around emotionality; yet there is a dearth of research on how stigma around emotionality may be formed through societal gender roles and stereotypes related to the expression of emotionality. The current study provides a preliminary investigation of this novel construct – emotionality stigma – as a mediator in the relationship between recalled parental emotion dysregulation (ED) and adult children’s internalizing symptom...
Source: Sex Roles - July 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
“A Dad Can Get the Money and the Mom Stays at Home”: Patriarchal Gender Role Attitudes, Intimate Partner Violence, Historical Oppression, and Resilience Among Indigenous Peoples
AbstractResearch has shown that gender role attitudes influence a number of health-related outcomes, including intimate partner violence (IPV). Yet the gender role attitudes of Indigenous peoples – a population that experiences persistent health and violence disparities – have received scant scholarly attention. Using the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence (FHORT), the purpose of this mixed methodology was to qualitatively explore U.S. Indigenous peoples’ gender role attitudes and quantitatively examine how key social determinants of health, including IPV perpetration, historical oppres...
Source: Sex Roles - July 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce: Examining Women ’s Experiences and Variations by Race/Ethnicity
This study utilizes interviews from 22 young female engineers from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds as they first entered the White and male-dominated engineering labor force with the goal of examining: (1) how these women endorsed a gender-blind frame that characterizes their workplaces as fundamentally meritocratic, and alternatively, (2) how they named gender as relevant or salient to experiences and interactions at work. Drawing on the insights of intersectional scholars to answer the previous questions, the study calls attention to how the invocation of these frames differed for women of color compared to their major...
Source: Sex Roles - July 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Gender Similarities Hypothesis: Insights From A Multilevel Analysis of High-Stakes Examination Results in Mathematics
AbstractThe current study involved multilevel analysis of high-stakes examination results (i.e., GCSE) in Northern Ireland to investigate gender differentials in mathematical achievement, whereas most previous research in the area used results from low-stakes tests (i.e., PISA, TIMSS). The analysis supported the gender similarities hypothesis with respect to both overall and content domain-specific mathematical attainment. Similar conclusions were drawn from the current study as have been reported in studies into gender differentials using data from low-stakes assessments in the respective jurisdiction. This suggests that ...
Source: Sex Roles - July 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
School Connectedness and STEM Orientation in Adolescent Girls: The Role of Perceived Gender Discrimination and Implicit Gender-Science Stereotypes
AbstractGirls and women continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), and this underrepresentation has been partly attributed to gendered socialization processes early in life. One common feature of girls ’ developmental years is the experience of gender discrimination, yet relatively few studies have examined how girls’ own experiences with gender discrimination may shape their connectedness to school and STEM. Using data from a cross-sectional study of ethnically and socioeconomically diverse a dolescent girls (N = 295;Mage = 15.1,SD = 1.1; 54% White, ...
Source: Sex Roles - June 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Predictors of Sexual Consent Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Among Sexual Minority Cisgender and Nonbinary Young Adults
AbstractSexual assault is a major public health concern in the United States that disproportionately affects sexual minority cisgender and nonbinary young adults. Although sexual assault is influenced by a myriad of societal and interpersonal factors, misunderstandings during the communication and interpretation of sexual consent signals likely contribute to this public health crisis. Unfortunately, research on sexual consent miscommunication has been heavily informed by heteronormative theories and conducted primarily with cisgender heterosexual men and women. The present study attempted to help address this gap in the li...
Source: Sex Roles - June 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
