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Contextual Thinking About Gender Differences Helps Set Our Feminist Agenda

Contextual Thinking About Gender Differences Helps Set Our Feminist Agenda. Janice D. Yoder University of Akron. Strengthened Feminist Identification. Strengthened Contextual Thinking About Gender Differences. Beliefs in the Plausibility of Social Change.

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Contextual Thinking About Gender Differences Helps Set Our Feminist Agenda

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  1. Contextual Thinking About Gender Differences Helps Set Our Feminist Agenda Janice D. Yoder University of Akron

  2. Strengthened Feminist Identification Strengthened Contextual Thinking About Gender Differences Beliefs in the Plausibility of Social Change Yoder, Fischer, Kahn, and Groden (in press) Feminist Agenda Instructors

  3. Created in interaction with others • Biology • Personality A Class Exercise to Encourage Contextual Thinking EssentialistView What I AM Social Constructionist View What I DO e x t e r n a l situationally dependent i n t e r n a l i m m u t a b l e • Socialization (past) • Social Context (present) Social Context: The social environment in which behavior occurs that can work to produce or constrain behavior

  4. A Class Exercise to Encourage Contextual Thinking Phases: Model contextual thinking(e.g., empathetic accuracy) Small group application Lecture about empirical evidence 1 2 3

  5. As a class, identify emotions expressed Empathetic Accuracy 1 • joy • fear • disgust • surprise • anger • sadness • contempt

  6. Are women more accurate than men? 1 • Folk wisdom: “women’s intuition” • d = 1.91 for self-reported empathy • Thomas & Fletcher (2003) • dating heterosexual couples in lab • videotaped trying to resolve relationship problem • Watched video and recorded own thoughts/feelings • Viewers watch and “mind read” Empathetic Accuracy = correlation between actor’s and viewer’s ratings

  7. Mind-Reading Accuracy (%) women men Are women more accurate than men? 1 Thomas & Fletcher (2003) 1. Women score higher than men 2. Scores correlatedacross targets(i.e., individualdifferences) 3. Men can do it,depending on the social context Strangers Dating Partner VIEWERS 4. Klein & Hodges (2001): paid women and men for their accuracy Men=Women

  8. favors women Small Group Assignment: Think of Contextual Explanations for Gender Differences in: 2 assign one/group • Spatial abilities • Aggression • Helping Behavior • Sociability favor men • Keys to understanding social context: • Gender-typing of tasks and occupations • Stereotyping & Expectancies • Social status and power

  9. NO difference difference Intersperse class-wide sharing of small group ideas with research 3 Spatial Abilities: Sharps, Price, & Williams (1994) spatial test score Spatial Non-spatial Task Instructions

  10. Self-ratings of own aggressiveness NO difference difference number of bombs dropped difference De-individuated Individuated Hello, I’m J a n Aggression: Lightdale & Prentice (1994) 3

  11. rescuing Helping: Eagly & Crowley (1986) 3 Gendered definitions of the construct caregiving

  12. % of time looking while speaking • woman - man talking • measured eye contactVisual dominance: • look while speaking • look away when listening Base- line Man Em- powered* Women Em- powered* Sociability -- Visual Dominance: Dovidio et al. (1988) 3 depends on status *Evaluates partner and awards extra credit points

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