Social role theory.

By A. Eagly, Wendy Wood. 2012

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Leading with their hearts? How gender stereotypes of emotion lead to biased evaluations of female leaders (2016, neutral): “Women in general are more likely to occupy domestic, care-taking roles (Eagly & Wood, 2012) that also tend to require a certain degree of emotional expressiveness.”
But You Don’t Look Like A Scientist!: Women Scientists with Feminine Appearance are Deemed Less Likely to be Scientists (2016, neutral): “Women remain disconcertingly underrepresented in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math; National Science Foundation [NSF] 2015), in part due to differential gender roles (Eagly and Wood 2012; Eccles 1987), life goals (Ceci and Williams 2011; Diekman et al.”
Gender and perceptions of leadership effectiveness: a meta-analysis of contextual moderators. (2014, background): “This division of labor has traditionally associated men with breadwinner positions and women with homemaker positions (Eagly & Wood, 2012).”
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III: Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes (2021, background): “That gender stereotypes have indeed changed aligns with perspectives, such as social role theory (Eagly & Wood, 2012; Koenig & Eagly, 2014), that suggest the slow but steady changes in women’s (and, to a lesser extent, men’s) roles over the past several decades will eventually manifest in changes…”
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words (2021, neutral): “Indeed, the strength of gender– occupation stereotypes was significantly correlated with real-world gender distribution of occupations, suggesting a coupling between language and direct experience of the real world (Eagly & Wood, 2012).”
Women's Representation in Science Predicts National Gender-Science Stereotypes: Evidence from 66 Nations. (2015, background): “These diverse observations can then influence stereotypes, as predicted by social role theory (Eagly & Wood, 2012; Wood & Eagly, 2012).”
The Times They Are a-Changing … or Are They Not? A Comparison of Gender Stereotypes, 1983–2014 (2016, background): “Social Role Theory (SRT; Eagly, 1987; Eagly & Wood, 2012; Eagly, Wood, & Diekman, 2000) provides a theoretical basis for predicting that changes in stereotypes would follow from the changes that have occurred in social role distribution.”
New Routes to Recruiting and Retaining Women in STEM: Policy Implications of a Communal Goal Congruity Perspective (2015, background): “Social role theory suggests that this gender difference originates from the distribution of women and men into social roles (Eagly, 1987; Eagly & Wood, 2011; Eagly, Wood, & Diekman, 2000).”
Two Traditions of Research on Gender Identity (2015, background): “In the social role theory analysis (Eagly and Wood 2012; Wood and Eagly 2010), these stereotypes reflect the division of labor between women and men in society (Koenig and Eagly 2014) and in turn foster gender-typical self-concepts, which, along with gender norms, guide individuals’ decision making ”