Henry the Nurse is a Doctor Too: Implicitly Examining Children’s Gender Stereotypes for Male and Female Occupational Roles.

Autor:	Wilbourn, Makeba, Kee, Daniel
Předmět:	GENDER stereotypes GENDER differences (Psychology) in children ROLE theory SOCIAL role OCCUPATIONAL segregation GENDER role PSYCHOLOGY
Zdroj:	Sex Roles; May2010, Vol. 62 Issue 9-10, p670-683, 14p, 2 Charts, 4 Graphs
Abstrakt:	Eagly’s social role theory (Eagly and Steffen ) was tested examining children’s gender role stereotypes via implicit information processing and memory measures. We explored whether children’s occupational stereotypes were less restrictive for females who engaged in counterstereotypic occupations (Mary-Doctor) compared to males who engaged in counterstereotypic occupations (Henry-Nurse). Fifty-seven American eight- and nine-year-olds from a southwestern city were orally presented with stereotypic male and female names paired with masculine and feminine occupations and asked to create sentences using the name-occupation pairs. We conducted analyses of the created sentences as well as tested children’s memories for the various pairings. Consistent with social role theory, the findings revealed that children’s gender role stereotypes were more restrictive for males, than for females. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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