Who Believes Gender Research? How Readers’ Gender Shapes the Evaluation of Gender Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11326418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chloe Grace Hart (0000-0002-8082-0484, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author), Charlotte Townsend (0000-0002-9571-8300, University of California, Berkeley), Charlotte H Townsend, Solène Delecourt (0000-0002-5917-3526, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 501-512 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-2725 • E-ISSN: 1939-8999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01902725241234855 |
| OpenAlex | W4392864307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Prior research finds that relative to women, men are less receptive to scientific evidence of gender bias against women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, whereas the researcher’s gender does not influence evaluations of gender research. Do these effects hold for research documenting workplace gender inequalities more generally? In a preregistered survey experiment fielded on Prolific, survey participants were shown tweets from a fictitious researcher—a woman or a man—that summarized recent research about workplace gender inequality, and then they were asked to rate the research. Consistent with prior work, men viewed research findings about workplace gender inequality less positively than women; researcher gender did not significantly influence evaluations. Men’s higher endorsement of gender system justification beliefs and hostile sexism appear to partially explain their less positive views, suggesting that men view gender research less positively in part because it challenges the idea that men’s relative advantages in the workplace are natural and earned
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |