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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"gender stereotypes"”.
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Gender Stereotypes and Interventions Targeting Gender Stereotypes
… evidence indicating STEM aptitude is not gender differentiated. Various policy and institutional efforts have been made to improve gender diversity in STEM, yet little progress has been made. As psychological research indicates the gender gap in STEM is perpetuated by gender stereotypes, …
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Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Evaluation
… I build on the existing literature on gender stereotypes and white female candidates to explore this question.
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Gender Stereotypes And The Governor's Mansion
This study analyzes the effects of gender stereotypes on women gubernatorial candidates in the post "Year of the Woman" era to determine whether or not the electoral gains made by women running for legislative office in 1992 also extended to women contesting executive elections in subsequent years. …
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Reel women: gender stereotypes in film
… was conducted to test an audience's perceptions gender stereotypes of women in the horror film, Scream. Results indicate that stereotypes present in the horror film effected the participants' perception of women as competent heroes. Female participants were also more likely to perceive women as …
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Implication of Gender Stereotypes for Public Policy
Stereotypes continue to be present and impact the assessment of women’s leadership effectiveness. Using a data set of senior executives in the public sector from The Leadership Circle multi-rater assessment tool, research supports the theory that gender influences how bosses rate their direct …
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Gender Stereotypes in Leadership: How Threatening Are They?
… body of research to better understand how gender stereotyping contributes to this disparity. One possible explanation for the impact of stereotyping on women in management is stereotype threat (i.e., the risk of confirming negative stereotypes as true). Experimental research concerning …
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Perceptions of masculinity and career specific gender stereotypes
<p>Career gender bias is the tendency for men or women to resist work in careers that tend to be dominated by individuals of a specific gender (nursing, public relations, elementary education, child-care, police, fire, manufacturing). This study posits that current university students exhibit …
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Un/doing gender stereotypes in digital technology journalism
… how the editorial brief impacts the creation of gender stereotyped digital technology entrepreneurs in digital technology journalism in South Africa. A second objective is to explore how journalists can create alternative, nongender stereotyped stories about digital technology entrepreneurs in …
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Examining Adolescent Daughters' and their Parents' Implicit Math-Gender Stereotypes
… in STEM fields, and research suggests that math-gender stereotypes may be a contributing factor. In the present research I examined daughters and parents implicit math-gender stereotypes during an important developmental period for career-related decisions: late adolescence. Participants (N=415) …
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Gender stereotypes in elementary reading textbooks: Dick and Jane revisited
… objective of this study was to determine whether gender stereotypes are present in elementary reading, textbooks published during the 1980s, and how the extent of stereotyping compares with textbooks published during the last two decades. Both manifest and latent content analyses were performed on …
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"Ice queens" and "snow studs": gender stereotypes and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
… (a content analysis and a survey) to analyze gender stereotypes in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. A nationwide sample of 718 survey participants sex-typed the 12 Winter Olympic sports as either masculine, gender-neutral, or feminine. Then, the televised content was analyzed for prominence of …
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Gender stereotypes in children's television commercials and the effects on consumer purchasing behavior
… an exploratory investigation on the extent of gender stereotypes portrayed in children's television commercials and the effects on consumer purchasing behavior. The author conducted two studies including a content analysis of viewing 75 children's television commercials, 25 boy, 25 girl, 25 …
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The roots of gender gaps: investigating the development of gender stereotypes about intelligence
… than boys to believe that members of their gender are “really, really smart” – a child-friendly way of referring to brilliance (Studies 1 and 2). Also at 6, girls begin to shy away from novel activities said to be for children who are “really, really smart” (Studies 3 and 4). Moreover, this …
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A Thematic Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Children's Top Mobile Applications of 2018
… process, including the formation of one's gender identity. App developers include gendered content to capture and maintain children's attention, but much of the existing research examines children in late childhood and early adolescence, leaving the ages of six to eight relatively …
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Fake It Until You Make It? Female Leaders’ Emotional Expression Management and Subordinates’ Gender Stereotypes
… or the influence of subordinates’ underlying gender stereotypes on the relationship between leaders’ EEM and subordinate outcomes. To gain a better understanding of how EEM and the followers’ perception of gender roles interactively influence affective and attitudinal outcomes, this study used …
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Children's Moral Reasoning about Attribution of Intentions: The Influence of Gender Stereotypes and Theory of Mind
The present study investigated how holding gender stereotypes and having a false belief theory of mind impacts children's understanding of intentionality when evaluating morally relevant stories. Children 3 - 4, 5 - 6, and 7 - 8-years-of-age (N = 127) were interviewed about the intentions of a …
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Addressing gender stereotypes in Egypt and the impact of gender-based violence in film and media
… specifically, this study will show that gender-based violence in Egypt can be attributed to trends in film and media. The representation of women in film and other media such as music videos and television shows highlight the problems in the way women are treated in Egypt. As a signatory …
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Uncovering the Unrealistic Domestic Goddess: A Modified Grounded Theory Approach to Gender Stereotypes in Parenting Blogs
… for instances of conforming to or deviating from gender stereotypes. A plethora of research recognizes the negative effects of perpetuating stereotypes on such aspects of life and culture as self-concepts, concepts of others, opportunities, obstacles, and occupations. Social cognitive theory …
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