Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender Mistakes and Inequality

博士论文研究：性别错误与不平等

• 批准号: 0117275
• 负责人: Cecilia Ridgeway
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2003-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0117275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Gender; Mistakes

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.

该项目评估性别错误对不平等的影响。 性别错误发生在演员得知他或她错误地将另一个人的性别归类时。 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，即使在他们被纠正之后。 例如，当一个男人被误认为是女人时，即使在错误被纠正后，他在这种互动中也不会像从未发生过错误那样享有性别优势。 另一方面，一个被误认为是男人的女人，会比没有发生错误时遭受更少的性别劣势。 该项目使用期望状态研究中常见的实验设计来测试这些说法。 结果表明，如果在涉及许多行为者的许多互动中发生性别错误，它们可能有助于减少性别不平等和男性在互动中的优势。 他们还认为，性别平等是通过在某些社会情况下明确显示性别行为和对性别的明确分类来维持的。