Is Traditional Gender Ideology Associated with Sex-Typed Mate Preferences? A Test in Nine Nations

By Paul W. Eastwick, A. Eagly, Peter Glick, Mary C. Johannesen-Schmidt, Susan T. Fiske, Ashley Blum, T. Eckes, P. Freiburger, Li-li Huang, Maria Lameiras Fernández and 6 more. 2006

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Social role theory (Eagly, Wood, & Diekman, 2000) predicts that traditional gender ideology is associated with preferences for qualities in a mate that reflect a conventional homemaker-provider division of labor. This study assessed traditional gender ideology using Glick and Fiske's (1996, 1999) indexes of ambivalent attitudes toward women and men and related these attitudes to the sex-typed mate preferences of men for younger mates with homemaker skills and of women for older mates with breadwinning potential. Results from a nine-nation sample revealed that, to the extent that participants had a traditional gender ideology, they exhibited greater sex-typing of mate preferences. These relations were generally stable across the nine nations.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Benevolent and Hostile Sexism and preferences for romantic partners (2009, background): “Although Eastwick et al. (2006) did not find that the impact of BS on women’s status/resources preferences differed across cultures, in less egalitarian countries the links between HS and attractiveness/vitality might be more pronounced.”
A meta-analytic review of research on gender differences in sexuality, 1993-2007. (2010, background): “Although this gender disparity in power is true for most areas of the world, the magnitude of the power differential varies crossculturally (Eastwick et al., 2006).”
Gender makes the difference: The moderating role of leader gender on the relationship between leadership styles and subordinate performance (2013, background): “Finally, recent research has revealed that, to the extent that individuals have a traditional gender ideology, they exhibit stronger stereotypical preferences (Eastwick et al., 2006).”