“Someone Like Me can be Successful”: Do College Students Need Same-Gender Role Models?

By P. Lockwood. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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STEMing the tide: using ingroup experts to inoculate women's self-concept in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). (2011, background): “Second, the presence versus absence of same-sex experts was far more impactful for women than for men (Study 3), which fits past research showing that women rely on same-sex role models for inspiration more than men do (Lockwood, 2006).”
Do Female and Male Role Models Who Embody STEM Stereotypes Hinder Women’s Anticipated Success in STEM? (2011, background): “Female role models protect women who are personally invested in STEM against the harmful effects of gender stereotypes by preventing underperformance (Marx & Roman, 2002), improving their self-views (Lockwood, 2006; Marx & Roman, 2002), and improving their implicit attitudes toward the domain (Stout”
Barriers and supports for female coaches: an ecological model (2012, background): “In short, same-sex role models inspire others to pursue and emulate similar achievements (Lockwood, 2006), and can provide insight and advice for how to navigate a sometimes difficult environment.”
What is a True Gamer? The Male Gamer Stereotype and the Marginalization of Women in Video Game Culture (2017, background): “This is particularly the case for women in male-dominated fields, where other women are more attainable, and in turn more effective, role models (Lockwood, 2006; Stout, Dasgupta, Hunsinger, & McManus, 2011).”
Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India (2012, unknown): “Further, much of the existing evidence comes from observational studies, where beliefs or actions of individuals exposed to different role models are compared (19–22), or from laboratory or short-term schoolbased experiments, where individuals are exposed to different role models either in person or”
Ingroup Experts and Peers as Social Vaccines Who Inoculate the Self-Concept: The Stereotype Inoculation Model (2011, methodology): “…et al., 2010; Asgari et al., 2011; Aspinwall, 1997; Blanton, 2001; Davies, Spencer, & Steele, 2005; Haines & Kray, 2005; Hoyt & Blascovich, 2007; Lockwood, 2006; Lockwood & Kunda, 1997, 1999; Lockwood, Jordan, & Kunda, 2002; Marx & Roman, 2002; McIntyre, Paulson, & Lord, 2003; Seta, 1982; Wood,…”
Exploring Identity-Safety Cues and Allyship Among Black Women Students in STEM Environments (2019, background): “Identity-safety cues occur in a variety of formats, and the efficacy of such cues has been widely studied in both workplace (Avery et al., 2004; Emerson & Murphy, 2014) and educational settings (Dasgupta, 2011; Lockwood, 2006).”
Even Einstein Struggled: Effects of Learning About Great Scientists’ Struggles on High School Students’ Motivation to Learn Science (2016, background): “…& Stout, 2012; Aspinwall, 1997; Blanton, 2001; Dasgupta, 2011; Davies, Spencer, & Steele, 2005; Haines & Kray, 2005; Hoyt & Blascovich, 2007; Lockwood, 2006; Lockwood, Jordan, & Kunda, 2002; Lockwood & Kunda, 1997; Marx & Roman, 2002; McIntyre, Paulson, & Lord, 2003; Seta, 1982; Wood, 1989).”
The Motivational Theory of Role Modeling: How Role Models Influence Role Aspirants’ Goals (2015, background): “For example, Ibarra and Petriglieri (2008) describe role models as those who are successful in a profession and imitated by those attempting to assume a professional role (see also Almquist & Angrist, 1971; BarNir, Watson, & Hutchins, 2011; Bell, 1970; Bosma et al., 2012; Cheryan, Siy, Vichayapai, D”
The Obama Effect : How a salient role model reduces race-based performance differences (2009, unknown): “…has shown that role models are most effective when stereotyped individuals and role models share the same gender or racial group membership (e.g., Lockwood, 2006; Marx & Roman, 2002; Marx & Goff, 2005; McIntyre, Paulson, & Lord, 2003) because these role models inspire belief that they can…”
The queen bee phenomenon: Why women leaders distance themselves from junior women (2016, unknown): “Second, particularly in male-dominated organizations, junior women are in need of female role models (Gibson, Cordova, Murrell, Crosby, & Ely, 1999; Gilbert, Gallessich, & Evans, 1983; Lockwood, 2006; Sealy, 2010; Sealy & Singh, 2010).”