Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender Mistakes and Inequality

该项目评估性别错误对不平等的影响。当一名演员得知他或她错误地对另一人进行了性别分类时，就会发生性别错误。这些性别错误可能会对犯错误的演员的行为和态度产生挥之不去的影响，即使在他们得到纠正之后也是如此。例如，当一名男性被误认为女性时，即使在错误得到纠正后，他在这种互动中享受的性别优势也会比从未发生错误的情况下更少。另一方面，被误认为男性的女性比没有错误的女性遭受的性别劣势要小得多。该项目使用预期状态研究中常见的实验设计来测试这些主张。结果表明，如果性别错误发生在许多互动中，涉及到许多参与者，它们可能有助于减少性别不平等和互动中的男性优势。他们还提出，通过在某些社会情况下清楚地展示性别行为和对性别进行明确的分类来维护性别平等。

This project assesses the impact of gender mistakes on inequality. A gender mistake occurs when an actor learns that he or she has incorrectly sex categorized another. These gender mistakes may have lingering effects on the behaviors and attitudes of the actor who made the mistake, even after they are corrected. For example, when a man is mistaken for a women, he will enjoy less of a gender advantage in that interaction, even after the mistake is corrected, than he would if the mistake had never occurred. A women who is mistaken for a man, on the other hand, will suffer less of a gender disadvantage than she would have if the mistake had not happened. The project tests these claims using an experimental design common in expectations states research. The results suggest that if gender mistakes occur in many interactions, involving many actors, they might contribute to reducing gender inequality and the male advantage in interaction. They also suggest that gender equality is maintained by clear-cut displays of gender behavior in certain social situations and distinct categorization of the sexes.