gender

Indifference to the rights of women and transgender people may lie in a certain way of thinking about gender.

Mothers and fathers often play different roles at home, and this difference can affect their happiness as parents.

Recent research shows that women are more physically “in synch” during conversations than men are.

Emotionally distant men in romantic relationships tend to have greater beliefs that women are manipulative and power-hungry.

The arrangement of pictures on a magazine page can affect people’s stereotypes about women and men.

Role models are not superhuman, and they sometimes fail. Although we might accept their imperfections, we do not expect that other people will treat them the same.

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Women who work in traditional male fields can thrive when they are fully valued and respected by their organization and their male colleagues.

Research on gender roles reveals a curious sense in which men are the “weaker sex.” Many men seem to live in a chronic state of insecurity about whether they are “real men.”

Why might a woman be told she did a “great job” at work yet be passed over for raises or a promotion? She may have been the victim of shifting standards.