Are Engineering Schools Masculine and Authoritarian? The Mission Statements Say Yes
Are Engineering Schools Masculine and Authoritarian? The Mission Statements Say Yes
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工程学校是男性化的、专制的吗？
DOI：
10.1037/1938-8926.1.1.33
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
L. G. Pillis
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作者：
E. D. Pillis;L. G. Pillis
在阅读了20所工科和文科院校的使命宣言后，商科学生记录了他们对每所院校假想的成功学生的印象。仅根据机构的使命声明，工科学生被认为更有可能具有支配性、强势和男子汉气概，而不太可能捍卫自己的信仰，或者说话温和，渴望抚慰情感，具有女性气质，或讨人喜欢。此外，对于男性受试者来说，他们自己的威权主义程度越高，他们就越有可能表明在工程学院取得成功的学生是像他们一样的人。威权主义对女性受试者没有这样的预测价值。我们的研究结果可能解释了为什么工程学院在吸引更多样化的学生群体方面可能会遇到困难：男子汉气概和等级制度的文化可能根深蒂固，甚至对因果观察者来说也是显而易见的。
After reading the mission statements of 20 engineering and liberal arts schools, business students recorded their impressions of a hypothetical successful student at each institution. Based only on institutional mission statements, engineering students were deemed significantly more likely to be dominant, forceful, and masculine and significantly less likely to defend their beliefs, or to be soft spoken, eager to soothe feelings, feminine, or likable. Additionally, for male subjects, the higher their own level of authoritarianism, the more likely they were to indicate that a successful student at an engineering institution was someone like themselves. Authoritarianism had no such predictive value for female subjects. Our results may illustrate why engineering schools might be having trouble attracting a more diverse group of students: a culture of masculinity and hierarchy may be so deeply entrenched that it is evident even to causal observers.