How Men and Women Cope When Gender Role Orientations Change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6338160
AutoresRoberta S Sigel (autor de correspondencia)
Año1992
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas337
Fecha de publicación1992-09-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3791602
OpenAlexW2322190609
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas14

Gender relations, or how the sexes interact with each other, has been the subject of commentaries from the days of Adam and Eve to the present. It continues to be of nearly universal interest and, unlike many others, is a topic on which almost everyone has an opinion and considers himor herself to be an expert. Gender relations affect how individual men and women conduct their lives and how society provides for the welfare of its citizens. evidence exists to date is that all societies use gender distinctions (albeit to different degrees) to regulate the private and public lives of their citizens. From point of view the analysis of gender is as large as the world. Gender distinctions are basic to the social order in all societies. Like age, gender orders society and is ordered by it (Epstein, 1988, p. 6). The study of gender relations-the subject of this paper-is a topic which calls for a multidisciplinary approach, specifically the kind political psychology can provide. One cannot study gender relations without looking at individuals and how they interact with each other-that is, without being attentive to what psychology can tell us about individual behavior. But neither can one ignore what political science has to tell us about the ways in which the political system through its various institutions and public policies regulates such relations. Nor should we overlook how anthropology informs us about the ways in which a given culture's formal and informal norms shape the values and behaviors which govern gender relations. What makes the study of gender so challenging and potentially so fruitful is the insight provides into social and cultural systems (Conway et al., 1987, p. xxix). At no time is this more obvious than during

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