The effects of job title vs. job description on occupational sex typing

Jessell, John C.; Beymer, Lawrence

doi:10.1007/bf00289655

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“…As expected, the findings of the current study provided additional support about occupational gender stereotypes showing that job titles are strong effective vehicles to communicate gender stereotypes for Turkish students. This result is in line with previous findings from different cultures (Guo and He, 2015; Jessell and Beymer, 1992; White and White, 2006; Willbourn and Kee, 2010). More broadly, our results highlighted that among 12 different occupations, there is only one occupation that is perceived as feminine: Nurse.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…As some studies showed that (Harmon and Conroe, 1976; Jessell and Beymer, 1992) job titles might lead to occupational gender stereotypes than the job descriptions, we also tested this assumption implicitly. Based on an assumption that university students have proper and detailed information about occupations related to their department (for example, a law student has detailed professional information about a lawyer and a judge when compared to a medical student), we compared students’ gender evaluations for each of the occupations.…”

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Implicit occupational gender stereotypes: a research among Turkish university students

Başfırıncı¹,

Ük

Karaoglu

et al. 2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal implicit occupational gender stereotypes for 12 different occupations in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of 954 Turkish university students, this study aimed to explore which jobs are implicitly perceived to be masculine and which jobs are implicitly perceived to be feminine. The role of the respondents’ sex, the place where they grew up (metropolitan or rural) and the information level about the occupation (job title or job description) on occupational gender stereotypes were also tested. Gender stereotypes were assessed using a hypothetical scenario method, which provides an opportunity to reveal implicit information processing. Chi Square and t-test were used in hypothesis testing. Findings Consistent with the circumscription and compromise and the social role theory, as expected, the findings of the current study provided additional support about occupational gender stereotypes showing that job titles are strongly effective vehicles to communicate gender stereotypes for Turkish university students. Originality/value Using implicit measures of information processing and offering findings from a completely different cultural background (Turkey) constitutes the original contribution of this work.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

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confidence: 99%

Implicit occupational gender stereotypes: a research among Turkish university students

Başfırıncı¹,

Ük

Karaoglu

et al. 2019

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“…Studies conducted in different countries with adolescent samples reveal that young women have more egalitarian attitudes than do young men (Burt and Scott 2002;Gibbons et al 1991;Gonzalez 1982;Jessell and Beymer 1992;Mensch et al 2003;Seginer et al 1990;Tuck et al 1994). In Spain, studies on sexist attitudes explored through the ASI and AMI scales (Lameiras et al 2001;Rodriguez 2002, 2003) have shown the same pattern of results than research by Fiske (1996, 1999) with adult samples.…”

Section: The Current Studymentioning

confidence: 59%

Benevolent Sexism Toward Men and Women: Justification of the Traditional System and Conventional Gender Roles in Spain

Silván-Ferrero

Bustillos

2007

Sex Roles

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The present study aimed to explore sexist attitudes in young people and to investigate the role of these ideologies in the contribution of boys and girls to housework. For this purpose, 139 Spanish high school students (67 females and 72 males) responded to the ASI and AMI scales (Glick and Fiske in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 70:491-512, 1996, Psychology of Women Quarterly 23:519-536, 1999) and assessed their contribution to housework in tasks considered traditionally done by women (highly gender-typed) or more neutral tasks (sex-neutral). Results showed that girls contributed significantly more to housework than boys. In addition, correlation analyses showed that benevolent sexism toward women, men and hostility toward men were significant related to highly gender typed tasks only in the female sample. This result shows the relevance of sexist ideologies in maintaining established differences between genders.

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“…An alternative possibility is that the amplitude of the positive shift reflects the "strength" of stereotypic beliefs and, correspondingly, that females hold stronger gender-related stereotypes than do males. However, recent work involving both explicit and implicit measures of stereotypes tends to support the opposite conclusion (Banaji & Greenwald, 1995;Jessell & Beymer, 1992) or has found no sex-based differences in the strength of gender-based stereotypes (Swim, Aikin, Hall, & Hunter, 1995). Another hypothesis is that females respond more 282 OSTERHOUT, BERSICK, AND McLAUGHLIN strongly than males to violations of social expectations about "appropriate" gender roles.…”

Section: Definitional Matchmentioning

confidence: 99%