Stereotypes as Dynamic Constructs: Women and Men of the Past, Present, and Future

By Amanda Diekman, A. Eagly. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Does gender bias against female leaders persist? Quantitative and qualitative data from a large-scale survey (2011, background): “Furthermore, since there is experimental evidence showing that exposure to female leaders reduces bias against them (Dasgupta and Asgari, 2004; Diekman and Eagly, 2000), we predict those with current or previous exposure to female bosses will be less likely to prefer male bosses: Hypothesis 3a:…”
Rolling with the Changes: A Role Congruity Perspective on Gender Norms (2006, methodology): “These analyses showed that, to the extent that participants perceived a nontraditional division of labor, they projected men and women to adopt counterstereotypic characteristics (e.g., Diekman & Eagly, 2000; Wilde & Diekman, 2005).”
Leading with their hearts? How gender stereotypes of emotion lead to biased evaluations of female leaders (2016, neutral): “…agency, but also another suite of 1 This estimate is based on computing effect sizes (Cohen’s d) frommajor published papers that report data on people’s beliefs about gender differences in emotional displays (Plant et al., 2000), cognitive abilities, and personality traits (Diekman & Eagly, 2000).”
Perspectives of Women College Athletes on Sport and Gender (2008, background): “Being culturally and socially induced, collective notions of gender are subject to drastic change over time (Visser 1996), and as roles shift in our society gender stereotypes should as well (Diekman and Eagly 2000).”
Henry the Nurse is a Doctor Too: Implicitly Examining Children’s Gender Stereotypes for Male and Female Occupational Roles (2010, background): “Generally speaking,social role theory states that genderrole stereotypes are dynamic and malleable because they emerge from role-bound activities and characteristics ( Diekman and Eagly 2000; Eagly et al. 2000).”
Gender and leadership emergence: A meta‐analysis and explanatory model (2018, background): “Indeed, research confirms that stereotypes of women appear to be shifting to reflect more agentic (stereotypically masculine) content (Diekman & Eagly, 2000), and women's agentic trait levels increased between 1974 and 2012 (Donnelly & Twenge, 2016).”
Warmth and Competence As Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map (2008, background): “As roles shift, gender stereotypes should too (Diekman and Eagly, 2000).”
Evaluations of Sexy Women In Low- and High-Status Jobs (2005, background): “The career woman subtype reflects societal recognition of the influx of women into the workforce over the past decades (see Diekman & Eagly, 2000).”
Backlash effects for disconfirming gender stereotypes in organizations (2008, background): “The evidence suggests that while descriptive beliefs may be changing to reflect the more agentic roles women now possess, prescriptive beliefs have remained static (Diekman & Eagly, 2000; Prentice & Carranza, 2002; Spence & Buckner, 2000).”
Warm, but Maybe Not So Competent?—Contemporary Implicit Stereotypes of Women and Men in Germany (2014, background): “and Germany show that women are increasingly associated with stereotypically male attributes, such as competitive and dominant, while still (although in part decreasingly) being perceived as stereotypically female, such as sensitive and supportive (Diekman and Eagly 2000; Wilde and Diekman 2005).”
Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders. (2002, background): “…of women’s roles in the 20th century, it is not surprising that social perceivers also understand that women are a social group undergoing change—in other words, women have a dynamic stereotype characterized by an increase in agentic personality characteristics (Diekman & Eagly, 2000).”