gender role

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Noun1.gender role - the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness; "your gender role is the public expression of your gender identity"
role - normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting; "what is your role on the team?"
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This study examines the possible relationships among sex, gender role orientation, secure attachment, and individuals' coping strategies.
The Effect of Sex and Gender Role Orientation on Coping among Americans and Chinese: Does "Secure" Matter?
Considering this background, it is appropriate that gender role attitudes are distinguished as traditional and nontraditional in China.
Gender role attitudes and their psychological effects on Chinese youth
Some studies pointed out that the gender role attitudes of health care students were in line with traditional views, which affects adversely attitudes towards domestic violence (12,17,18).
Assessing the Relation Between Attitudes Towards Gender Roles and Domestic Violence of Nursing And Paramedic Students/Hemsirelik ve Acil Tip Teknikerligi Ogrencilerinin Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri Ile Aile Ici Siddete Yonelik Tutumlari Arasindaki Iliskinin Degerlendirilmesi
School is one of the important institutions that reproduce gender role in terms of getting settled in femininity and masculinity role.
Teacher Candidates' Gender Role Attitudes: Case of Adiyaman University/Ogretmen Adaylarinin Toplumsal Cinsiyet Tutumu: Adiyaman Universitesi Ornegi
Present study was carried out with the aim to identify the consideration of the egalitarian gender role in our society where goal achievement and career stability become a demand for both male and female in the family, to elaborate the patterns of behaviour attitudes and belongings in Egalitarianism, to explore the more valued expectations of society.
EMERGENCE OF EGALITARIANISM BY GENDER ROLE DYNAMICS IN FAMILY SYSTEM (SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE)
Despite the link between beliefs about gender and religion, the relationship between Evangelical Christians' religious beliefs about gender and gender role ideology has yet to be explored.
Where gender and religion meet: differentiating gender role ideology and religious beliefs about gender
The gender role identity is an important aspect of an individual's personality development as it influences not only the self- concept but also has an impact on the way the individual will think, behave, feel and, in general, conduct his or her social life.
Development of a gender role inventory for Indian adolescents
In this study, we consider parental attitudes based on the following three views: (i) parental gender role attitude, (ii) parental attitude on girls' capability, and (iii) parental gender biased investment attitude.
Parental educational aspiration and gender inequality of rural children in Bangladesh: the role of parental attitudes of traditional gender role, gender biased capability, and gender
Assuming the predictions of microeconomic theory and gender role theory on the effects of perceived job instability on fertility intentions, we expected that:
The role of attitudes towards maternal employment in the relationship between job quality and fertility intentions
Masculinity and femininity can be described as an individual's endorsement and internalization of culturally defined norms about the male and female gender role, and individual men and women may embrace or reject these roles to different degrees (Fleck 1995; Pleck et al.
Perceptions of aggression are colored by gender roles
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