Cross-cultural variations of gender rules: how women and men should (not) be in India, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the U.S.

Date

2017-06-26

Author

Nater, Christa
Senden Gustafsson, Marie
Lohmore, Akanksha
Rudman, Laurie
Sakallı, Nuray
Sczesny, Sabine

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

140
views

0
downloads

Gender inequality is an ongoing problem in social life and remains a crucial issue for many societies (e.g., the United Nations’ HeForShe Programme, 2016, www.heforshe.org/en). One mechanism that may contribute to the persistence of gender inequality is gender stereotyping, that is, the specific beliefs people hold about the characteristics that women and men are likely to possess or to lack. Proscriptive traits for women (e.g., dominance and arrogance) challenge the status hierarchy and thus trigger harsh sanctions (Rudman, Moss-Racusin, Glick, & Phelan, 2012). In our study we investigated violations of proscriptive gender norms cross-culturally to gain first knowledge on how such violations contribute to the maintenance of gender stereotypes. The online study was based on a 2 (Target gender: Female, male) x 5 (Country: India, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.S.) between-subjects design. We asked four groups of participants to indicate how common and typical [descriptions] or how desirable [prescriptions] 120 characteristics were in women [or men] in their society. To assess the status typicality of these features, we asked two groups of participants to indicate how common and typical the 120 characteristics were in persons with high [or low] status (for details see Rudman et al., 2012). The sample consisted of about 2,000 participants (data collection ongoing). Preliminary results revealed that the higher the achieved gender equality in a country, the less traditional the descriptions and prescriptions of agency and communion for women and men, and the less similar the judgments for men and high-status people on the one hand as well as women and low-status people on the other. Moreover, proscriptive aspects of gender stereotypes in particular were found to reflect cultural variation in gender equality due to their correlation with status.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84233

Conference Name

EASP SPSP Meeting, (24 - 26 Haziran 2017)

Collections

Department of Psychology, Conference / Seminar

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Gender, policy, place: ladies' clubs in Ankara Çavdar, Selin; Günay, Baykan; Department of City and Regional Planning (2010) There is a substantial amount of studies concerning the economic, social and political facades of the gender issue, further supported by gender - space discussions. The main aim of this study, however, is to make a survey and analysis of ladies' clubs established and supported by Greater Ankara Municipality; in order to define their problematic. The study intends to discover and analyze the policies and legislation developed by the administration about Ladies’ Clubs, to map their distribution in the city an...
Considering the role of men in gender agenda setting: conceptual and policy issues Erturk, Y (2004-01-01) The international gender equality agenda evolved into one of mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes. Within this process, the role of men gained increasing attention in the debates on gender equality. This resulted in the inclusion of 'men's role' as one of the themes of the agenda of the Commission on the Status of Women for the year 2004. While this is another step forward in the global efforts for achieving equality between women and men, its potential risks should not be ove...
Profeminist men : disguised allies of feminism in the academia? Akis, Yasemin; Ecevit, Fatma Yıldız; Department of Gender and Women's Studies (2006) The number of men within the academia who analyze patriarchy, masculinities and gender inequality seem to be increasing in Turkey especially for the last couple of years. This can be considered as an evidence for the influence of feminism over men. Although more men today are interested in those fields of feminism to criticize men’s hegemony, it is rather important to know that how much extent they are open to change their relation with patriarchy in order to confront it. This study attempts to provide a cr...
Domestic Social Policy Change due to the Pressures of European Integration: Equality between Women and Men at Work and Women’s Employment Policies in Turkey Göksel, Asuman (Routledge, 2011-11-01) This chapter analyses how European integration in one of its most consistent policy spheres has affected the dynamics and outcome of social policy change in Turkey, in the policy fields of equality between women and men at work and women's employment. It argues that the impact of the European integration process on Turkey has been very much mediated by and flowed through the actions of domestic societal actors for the selected policy issues. The chapter employs the Europeanization conceptual framework, whic...
A critical analysis of discourses on gender equality in education: the case of Turkey KÜÇÜKAKIN, PINAR; Engin Demir, Cennet (2022-03-01) Despite national and international attempts to eliminate gender inequality in education, it remains a pressing issue in Turkey. Because gender equality is often shaped by and through discursive practices, the present study explores how educational policy and media discourses create gender inequalities in education. The critical discourse analysis examines 124 policy documents published by 12 governmental organizations and 252 newspaper clippings found in 14 different national newspapers published in Turkey ...

Citation Formats

C. Nater, M. Senden Gustafsson, A. Lohmore, L. Rudman, N. Sakallı, and S. Sczesny, “Cross-cultural variations of gender rules: how women and men should (not) be in India, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the U.S.,” presented at the EASP SPSP Meeting, (24 - 26 Haziran 2017), Berlin, Almanya, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84233.