The gender role hypothesis posits that performance on a cognitive ability test is influenced by whether the test instructions frame the test as measuring a skill that is consistent or inconsistent with the test taker’s gender role beliefs. The Bem sex role inventory was used to measure the gender role of female college students, and the group embedded figures test (GEFT) was used to measure the...

This article reports a representative quantitative and qualitative study covering the entire territory of Bulgaria, related to analysis stereotypes regarding male female roles in family society. The results indicate that factor “age” is significant relation attitudes towards social men women modern family, including domestic violence. interpretation enabled formulation justified conclusions cha...

Abstract Introduction Girls with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) are exposed to excess fetal androgens in-utero, and often born masculinised genitalia. They conventionally reared as females, but show more “boyish” gender-role behaviour (GRB) gender-identity (GI) issues in childhood adolescence. Male-rearing is also reported mainly due delayed treatment and/or socio-cultural facto...

The relationship between traditional gender role ideology and homophobia has frequently been suggested in social science literature. Few studies, however, have empirically examined the relationship between these cultural conceptions, and far fewer studies have linked gender roles and homophobia to actual behaviors. This study fills a gap in the existing literature by incorporating attitudinal m...

In this article, Bettcher argues that sexual attraction must be reconceptualized in light of transgender experience. In particular, Bettcher defends the theory of "erotic structuralism," which replaces an exclusively other-directed account of gendered attraction with one that includes a gendered eroticization of self as an essential component. This erotic experience of self is necessary for oth...

The born-again discourse is a central characteristic of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa. In the study of African Christianities, this discourse and the way it (re)shapes people’s moral, religious, and social identities has received much attention. However, hardly any attention has been paid to its effects on men as gendered beings. In the study of men and masculinities in Africa, on the othe...