Social Role Theory of Sex Differences and Similarities : A Current Appraisal

By T. Eckes, H. M. Trautner. 2012

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Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems (2020, background): “Gender inequality is characterized by, and reproduced through, the persistence of gendered stereotypes that associate women with lower social status than men (Eagly, Wood, and Diekman 2000; Ridgeway 2011, 2014; Ridgeway and Correll 2004).”
When does a compliment become sexist? Analysis and classification of ambivalent sexism using twitter data (2017, background): “Becker and Wagner (2008) introduce Gender Identity Model (GIM) using social identity theory (SIT) (Hogg, 2016) and social role theory (SRT) (Eagly et al., 2000) to explain women’s endorsement of sexist beliefs.”
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Using Factor Analysis to Gather Validity Evidence When Using Surveys in Your Research (2019, background): “Gender socialization theory contributed to our understanding of who holds these goals most strongly: women are socialized to desire and assume more communal roles, while males assume more agentic roles (Eagly et al., 2000; Prentice and Carranza, 2002; Su et al., 2009).”
Sex, Gender, and Decisions at the Family → Work Interface (2010, background): “…constructs such as gender roles (Deaux & LaFrance, 1998) and theories of the psychology of gender such as social role theory (Eagly, 1987; Eagly et al., 2000) were often invoked to argue that mediating or moderating relationships would be present or to explain significant relationships…”
Gender Rules: Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships Norms (2012, neutral): “Contemporary gender stereotypes contain messages that frame women as more communal in their relationships, and men as more instrumental and more agentic (Eagly et al. 2000).”
A Social Role Theory Perspective on Gender Gaps in Political Attitudes (2010, methodology): “Our goal in this article is to apply a framework grounded in social role theory (e.g., Eagly et al., 2000) to understanding gender gaps in political attitudes.”
The Times They Are a-Changing … or Are They Not? A Comparison of Gender Stereotypes, 1983–2014 (2016, background): “In SRT, Eagly and her colleagues (Eagly, 1987; Eagly et al., 2000; Eagly & Wood, 2012) argue that people’s beliefs about gender characteristics emerge from observations of women and men behaving in their typical social roles.”