Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Gender Role, Grammatical Gender, Androcentrism
22 Sep 2018
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Can bias your perceptions and expectations of and interactions with others: beliefs about the attributes characteristic of men and women are widely shared. Despite the general agreement on a number of gender stereotypes variability also occurs. Boundaries between male and female stereotypes have become less rigid- more support for viewing gender attributions as a continuum rather than a dichotomy. Traditional male stereotype is more complimentary than the conventional female stereotype: evidence that masculinity is associated with higher overall status and competence. In the workplace a man might be described as good with details whereas a woman is viewed as picky . This discrepancy is related to androcentrism- belief that the male is the norm. Implication is that men are the norm from which women deviate. Gender similarities and differences: meta-analysis- combines the statistical results of many studies of the same question, yielding and estimate of the size and consistency of a variable"s effects.
