Decisions on Child Care
Do Sex and Sexual Orientation Matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13652011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela C Regan (California State University Los Angeles, corresponding author), Corina Ramirez (California State University Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 922-924 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.2000.86.3.922 |
| PMID | 10876346 |
| OpenAlex | W1982086376 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This experiment on person perception used a role-playing methodology to examine whether a target individual's sex and sexual orientation influence perceived abilities as a child care worker. Men and women ( N = 78) role played the part of a parent who has placed an advertisement for a full-time babysitter. They received information about a male or female, heterosexual or homosexual applicant (randomly assigned). Although participants preferred to hire (and felt more comfortable leaving their children with) a heterosexual woman than any other type of applicant, they believed that homosexual men and women were as knowledgeable about aspects of child care, e.g., nutrition, first aid, as their heterosexual peers. The least preferred child care worker was a heterosexual man, perhaps because such a target is inconsistent with traditional sex-role expectations
Child care · Developmental psychology · Family medicine · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Orientation (vector space · Perception · Sexual orientation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |