Sexual arousal is category-specific in men; heterosexual men are more aroused by female than by male sexual stimuli, whereas homosexual men show the opposite pattern. There is reason to believe that female sexual arousal is organized differently. We assessed genital and subjective sexual arousal to male and female sexual stimuli in women, men, and postoperative male-to-female transsexuals. In c...

While infertility is a global challenge for millions of couples, low income countries have particularly high rates, of up to 30%. Infertility in these contexts is not limited to its clinical definition but is a socially constructed notion with varying definitions. In highly pronatalistic and patriarchal societies like Pakistan, women bear the brunt of the social, emotional and physical conseque...

Men typically express more willingness than women to perpetrate fraudulent acts like lying in negotiations. However, just as much some cases. We develop and test a theory explain these mixed findings. Specifically, we hypothesize that situational cues bring about competitive or empathic feelings mitigate sex differences negotiation counterparts. Results from four experiments confirm our hypothe...

Recent hunter-gatherers display much uniformity in the division of labor along the lines of gender and age. The complementary economic roles for men and women typical of ethnographically documented hunter-gatherers did not appear in Eurasia until the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. The rich archaeological record of Middle Paleolithic cultures in Eurasia suggests that earlier hominins pursue...

The measures of attitudes toward gender roles included in many representative international and national omnibus surveys were developed mostly in the 1970s and 1980s with a focus on the male breadwinner model. This article deals with the issue of whether the measures provided in these omnibus surveys need to be adjusted to specific social changes. A review of these measures has found that adjus...

Most members of the Harvard !Kung Bushman Study Project who have thought about the subject of !Kung women's status agree that !Kung society may be the least sexist of any we have experienced. This impression contradicts some popularly held stereotypes about relations between the sexes in hunting and gathering societies. Because sex is one of the few bases for the differentiation of social and e...

This paper details the changes in agency and autonomy of left-behind women international migrant-men exploring continuity discourse systems traditional gender roles a village rural Bangladesh. It sheds light on pattern trans-border communication their mobility locality subsequent relations. Through ethnographic fieldwork, this examined how rearrange culturally constructed boundaries meanings ge...

Although the question of whether women and men speak differently is a topic hot debate, an overview extent towhich empirical studies provide robust support for relationship between sex/gender language lacking. Therefore, aim current scoping review to synthesize recent from various theoretical perspectives on use in spoken face-to-face dyadic interactions. Fifteen were systematically selected re...

The existing gender analysis frameworks start with a premise that men and women are equal and should be treated equally. These frameworks give emphasis on equal distribution of resources between men and women and believe that this will bring equality which is not always true. Despite equal distribution of resources, women tend to suffer and experience discrimination in many areas of their lives...

Collective action for other groups, such as men's women, has usually been analysed social protest advancing equality of disadvantaged groups. In the current research we extend collective literature by applying SIMCA predictors—identity, injustice, efficacy—to investigate in support an advantaged group (women's men) and distinguishing its progressive reactionary forms. Across three online sample...