and parents may feel proud of their daughter for being strong andresilient. However, the reaction may be harsher when a boy wants to dress up as a fairy or a princess. Respecting individuality rather than reinforcing outdated gender norms must be kept in mind for all...
Gender normsGender rolesHealthcare AccessSexual healthReproductive healthMoroccoImproving access to sexual and reproductive health remains a public health challenge, especially for women, whose access is affected by several determinants, such as gender inequality, which is the underlying barrier to all ...
As such, boys’ appearance might be more a reflection of societal gender norms than of their identity. Moreover, historically, girls and women were judged in society primarily based on their appearance and way of dress, whereas they were not considered for other aspects of their personality, ...
Many of the gender norms applied to girls and women in this study were related to and reinforced by their role as homemaker within a patriarchal society, while boys were given more educational and vocational opportunities by their families and broader social structures28. This study finding aligns...
In particular, our attention lies in its relationship with gender role norms. The research conducted a self-administered survey to second year students (at the age of 15 or 16) who attended ten public high schools in Tokyo and analyzed the data consisting of female respondents with multinomial ...
Boys raised in modern families (i.e. where the mother is the breadwinner) are less likely to develop traditional norms. However, compared to those in traditional families, girls raised in modern families are actually more likely to be traditional; in opposition to their family's but in line ...
Although this approach is unlikely to shift entrenched norms and practices around sexual violence, providing girls with additional knowledge and skills via a safe spaces' platform could increase their supportive social connections (local adult female mentors and same-age female friends), and provide ...
Using [OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment] PISA test scores from 11,527 second-generation immigrants coming from 35 different countries of ancestry and living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test ...
she wants it more: Perceptions of social norms about desires for marriage and children and anticipated chore participation. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 34(2), 253–260. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2010.01566.x. Article Google Scholar Fuller, S. (2019). Topic: U.S. Millennials...
We examined the relationships between gender and attitudes towards same- and cross-gender friendship norms for a sample of 269 West Coast, U.S., college st