Visualizing Gendered Representations of Male and Female Teachers Using a Reverse Correlation Paradigm

Stereotypically, men are expected to outperform women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains, and women to outperform men in language. We conceptually replicated this association using reverse correlation tasks. Without available gender information, participants generate...

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Published in:Social psychology (Göttingen, Germany) Germany), 2019-07, Vol.50 (4), p.233-251
Main Authors: Degner, Juliane, Mangels, Jana, Zander, Lysann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Female
Gender stereotypes
Human
Human Sex Differences
Language
Language teachers
Male
Males
Mathematics
Physics
Science and technology
Sciences
STEM
Stereotyped Attitudes
Stereotypes
Teacher Attitudes
Teachers
Test Construction
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Summary:Stereotypically, men are expected to outperform women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains, and women to outperform men in language. We conceptually replicated this association using reverse correlation tasks. Without available gender information, participants generated male images of physics teachers and female images of language teachers (Studies 1 and 3). Personal endorsement of respective ability stereotypes inconsistently predicted these effects (Studies 1 and 3). With unambiguous gender information (Study 2), participants generated feminized images of female language teachers and masculinized images of female physics teachers, whereas images of male teachers were unaffected by academic domain. Stereotype endorsement affected perceptions of female but not male teachers, suggesting that appearing feminine in STEM domains still signals professional mismatch.
ISSN:1864-9335
2151-2590
DOI:10.1027/1864-9335/a000382