Title
Catching up with wonderful women : the women-are-wonderful effect is smaller in more gender egalitarian societies
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
International Journal of Psychology
Publication Date
3-14-2017
Volume
Advance online publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Keywords
Culture, Social cognition, Gender egalitarianism, Gender stereotypes, Implicit attitudes
Abstract
Inequalities between men and women are common and well-documented. Objective indexes show that men are better positioned than women in societal hierarchies—there is no single country in the world without a gender gap. In contrast, researchers have found that the women-are-wonderful effect—that women are evaluated more positively than men overall—is also common. Cross-cultural studies on gender equality reveal that the more gender egalitarian the society is, the less prevalent explicit gender stereotypes are. Yet, because self-reported gender stereotypes may differ from implicit attitudes towards each gender, we reanalysed data collected across 44 cultures, and (a) confirmed that societal gender egalitarianism reduces the women-are-wonderful effect when it is measured more implicitly (i.e. rating the personality of men and women presented in images) and (b) documented that the social perception of men benefits more from gender egalitarianism than that of women.
DOI
10.1002/ijop.12420
Print ISSN
00207594
E-ISSN
1464066X
Funding Information
Research was supported by the Polish National Science Centre grant 2011/03/N/HS6/05112 (K.K.), National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 31200788 (C.X) and National Research, Development and Innovation Office grant no. OTKA-K-111 789 grant (M.F.). {2011/03/N/HS6/05112 (K.K.), 31200788 (C.X), OTKA-K-111 789 grant (M.F.)}
Publisher Statement
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Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Krys, K., Capaldi, C. A., Van Tilburg, W., Lipp, O. V., Bond, M. H., Vauclair, C.-M., … Ahmed, R. A. (2017). Catching up with wonderful women: The women-are-wonderful effect is smaller in more gender egalitarian societies. International Journal of Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12420
