Beyond Mars and Venus: The role of gender essentialism in support for gender inequality and backlash.

It has been argued that gender essentialism impedes progress towards greater gender equality. Here we present a new gender essentialism scale (GES), and validate it in two large nationally representative samples from Denmark and Australia. In both samples the GES was highly reliable and predicted la...

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Main Authors: Lea Skewes, Cordelia Fine, Nick Haslam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6057632?pdf=render