Catching up with wonderful women: The women-are-wonderful effect is smaller in more gender egalitarian societies

Kuba Krys*, Colin A. Capaldi, Wijnand van Tilburg, Ottmar V. Lipp, Michael Harris Bond, C. Melanie Vauclair, L. Sam S Manickam, Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa, Claudio Torres, Vivian Miu Chi Lun, Julien Teyssier, Lynden K. Miles, Karolina Hansen, Joonha Park, Wolfgang Wagner, Angela Arriola Yu, Cai Xing, Ryan Wise, Chien Ru Sun, Razi Sultan SiddiquiRadwa Salem, Muhammad Rizwan, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Martin Nader, Fridanna Maricchiolo, María Malbran, Gwatirera Javangwe, Idil Işik, David O. Igbokwe, Taekyun Hur, Arif Hassan, Ana Gonzalez, Márta Fülöp, Patrick Denoux, Enila Cenko, Ana Chkhaidze, Eleonora Shmeleva, Radka Antalíková, Ramadan A. Ahmed

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Abstract

Inequalities between men and women are common and well-documented. Objective indexes show that men are better positioned than women in societal hierarchies-there is no single country in the world without a gender gap. In contrast, researchers have found that the women-are-wonderful effect-that women are evaluated more positively than men overall-is also common. Cross-cultural studies on gender equality reveal that the more gender egalitarian the society is, the less prevalent explicit gender stereotypes are. Yet, because self-reported gender stereotypes may differ from implicit attitudes towards each gender, we reanalysed data collected across 44 cultures, and (a) confirmed that societal gender egalitarianism reduces the women-are-wonderful effect when it is measured more implicitly (i.e. rating the personality of men and women presented in images) and (b) documented that the social perception of men benefits more from gender egalitarianism than that of women.

Original languageEnglish
JournalInternational Journal of Psychology
Volume53
Issue numberS1
Pages (from-to)21-26
Number of pages6
ISSN0020-7594
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2018

Keywords

  • Culture
  • Gender egalitarianism
  • Gender stereotypes
  • Implicit attitudes
  • Social cognition

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