期刊
GENDER ISSUES
卷 37, 期 1, 页码 1-24出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12147-019-09246-y
关键词
Sex roles; Gender differences; Measurement; Scaling
This study provides an analysis of the content of feminine and masculine characteristics/behaviors described in writing by 366 young women and 289 young men from the U.S. Emergent characteristics/behaviors were placed into domains. For both femininity and masculinity, the domains of physical differences related to sex and emphasized physical differences emerged. For masculinity, additional domains were: activities and interests focused on the body, powerful or oriented toward power, and emotion-control or emotionally-limited. For femininity, additional domains were lacking power, orientation to other people, and emotional. We then compared the characteristics/behaviors and domains we discovered to gender inventories that are commonly used in the contemporary period. The masculine domains focused on physical differences, activities, and interests that emerged from the present study are mostly absent from these masculinity inventories. The domains focused on power and restricted emotion are evident in these inventories, but these inventories do not cover all of the characteristics within our domains. The feminine domains that emerged from the present study are more often covered in these inventories, but some of the specific feminine characteristics we found are not evident in these inventories. Results are discussed in terms of gender role theory, gender inequality, and potential application for qualitative and quantitative inquiries into the construction of gender.
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