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Title: | High school students’ sexist beliefs about academic abilities and women’s roles: the influence of school specialization |
Other Titles: | Creencias sexistas de los estudiantes de enseñanza secundaria sobre las aptitudes académicas y el rol de las mujeres: la influencia de la especialización escolar |
Author: | Sainz, Milagros Gallego Arias, Maria del Carmen |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) |
Citation: | Sáinz Ibáñez, M. [Milagros] & Gallego Arias, M.C. [María del Carmen]. (2022). High school students' sexist beliefs about academic abilities and women's roles: the influence of school specialization. International Journal of Social Psychology = Revista de Psicología Social, 37(2), 383-411. doi: 10.1080/02134748.2022.2040865 |
Abstract: | The present study analyses the influence of gender and type of baccalaureate pathway on students’ beliefs about the respective abilities of girls and boys in gender-congruent subjects, controlling for ambivalent sexism. Eight hundred and sixty-six students (M = 17.5, SD = 0.83) enrolled in the second course of high school participated. Students on the science pathway were more likely to believe that boys perform better in maths, physical science and technology, and that girls perform better in literature, biology and languages. Boys and girls in gender-congruent pathways were more likely to consider boys to have greater abilities in maths, physical science and technology, whereas girls in languages, biology and literature. Moreover, students’ attitudes towards boys’ ability to perform better in maths, physical science and technology depended to a great extent on ambivalent sexist attitudes, whereas students’ sexist attitudes regarding girls’ greater abilities in literature, biology and languages depended on benevolent sexist attitudes alone. |
Keywords: | ambivalent sexism gender roles sexist beliefs study choices STEM |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2022.2040865 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
Issue Date: | 13-Apr-2022 |
Publication license: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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