How are perceived the current women and men? A study about gender stereotypes and sexism among university students
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How are perceived the current women and men? A study about gender stereotypes and sexism among university studentsAutoría
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2017-03-06Editor
International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)ISBN
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AGUT NIETO, Sonia (2017). How are perceived the current women and men? A study about gender stereotypes and sexism among university students. Comunicación presentada en "11th International Technology, Education and Development", 6/3/2017, Valencia (Spain)", p. 144-150Tipo de documento
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The massive incorporation of women into the educational system and the labour market in the last
decades could lead us misleadingly to see the reality in a very optimistic way. The reality is that
women, despite ... [+]
The massive incorporation of women into the educational system and the labour market in the last
decades could lead us misleadingly to see the reality in a very optimistic way. The reality is that
women, despite their excellent qualifications comparable to that of men, are still in a discriminatory
situation in comparison to men. Growing literature analyses the underlying processes to shed light to
this problem, and the explanations that has received the most attention from researchers are the
existence of gender stereotypes and sexist attitudes in our society. People associate communal
qualities (e.g., nice, compassionate) with women, while agentic qualities (e.g., assertive, competitive)
are more linked to men, which precisely are considered as requirements for success in labour world.
The aim of this study is to analyse whether there are differences in how men and women are
perceived (i.e., which are their characteristic traits) and to explore the possible effect of sexism on
these perceptions. The sample is composed of 200 Spanish university students (n = 110 men and n =
90 women). The results show that there are significant differences in how women and men in general
are perceived in terms of their characteristic traits nowadays. In the majority of the attributes, women
in general are perceived in a feminine way, while men are viewed in a masculine way, in accordance
to gender stereotypes. In addition, there are some statistical differences in these perceptions in
function of the degree of sexist attitudes among the participants. In particular, those students who
scored lower in sexism attribute some typical masculine traits to women. On the contrary, those
students who scored higher in sexism attribute typical feminine traits to women. In the case of
perceptions about men, the students who scored lower in sexism attribute one typical feminine trait to
men, while those students who scored higher in sexism attribute typical masculine traits to men. It is
interesting to highlight that perceptions about women are less favourably than the perceptions about
men. Those findings suggest the important weight of gender stereotypes and the prejudice against
women in our society. The implications of the results for education, university teaching-learning
process, future research guidelines, and limitations of the study are also discussed. [-]
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