Gender Equality Paradox: Das Patriarchat oder die Sozialisation bewirken nicht die Geschlechterunterschiede

Ein einem interessant klingenden Kapitel aus einem Buch zur Evolution der Sexualität wird auch das Gender Equality Paradox besprochen, also der Umstand, dass in Gesellschaften mit mehr Gleichberechtigung die Geschlechterunterschiede deutlicher werden. Der Abstrakt klingt interessant:

Psychologists have uncovered dozens of ways men and women differ in affect, behavior, and cognition. Social role theorists assume that men’s and women’s psychological differences solely result from sex role socialization processes and sociopolitical power differentials, and, as a consequence, social role theorists further assume psychological sex differences will be smaller in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity. In this chapter, evidence is marshaled across 21 data sources that directly challenge this foundational assumption of social role theory. Empirically, sex differences in most psychological traits—in personality, sexuality, attitudes, emotions, behaviors, and cognitive abilities—are conspicuously larger in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity. Even sex differences in many physical traits such as height, obesity, and blood pressure are larger in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity. Three alternative evolutionary perspectives on psychological sex differences—obligate sex differences, facultatively mediated sex differences, and emergently-moderated sex differences—appear to better explain the universal and culturally-variable sex differences reliably observed across human cultures.

Quelle: The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization

Dies war schon häufiger Thema im Blog:

Einen weiteren Einblick gibt es bei Google Books, ich habe mal ein paar der Ergebnisse herausgezogen.

Geschlechterunterschiede Mann Frau

Geschlechterunterschiede Mann Frau

Geschlechterunterschiede Mann Frau

Geschlechterunterschiede Mann Frau

Geschlechterunterschiede Mann Frau

Geschlechterunterschiede Mann Frau

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