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