Christa Nater- Ph.D.
- PostDoc Position at University of Bern
Christa Nater
- Ph.D.
- PostDoc Position at University of Bern
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Gender rules, that is, prescriptive and proscriptive gender stereotypes, dictate how women and men should and should not be, and thereby perpetuate the gender hierarchy that privileges men over women. Across seven nations that span the continuum of gender equality, we investigated gender status norms by identifying the extent to which gender rules...
Miscitation of research findings is a common problem as evidenced by 19% of citations in top psychology journals being in error (Cobb et al., American Psychologist, 79:299–311, 2024). Such errors interfere with the orderly cumulation of knowledge. Providing a case study, this research examines the citations of a recent and highly cited article on g...
The cultural construal of leadership as masculine impedes women’s attainment of leader roles. This research examined whether adding feminine demands to a leader role relieved the greater stress experienced by women than men in a job interview for a leadership position and considered the processes that mediated women’s less favourable interview outc...
This research identified two mechanisms that explain gender differences in attitudes towards gender quotas. Using a multi-method approach, we assessed attitudes as self-reported support for gender quotas and rater-coded valence of participants' free associations with gender quotas. Study 1 examined quotas for university professorship positions (N =...
This research examines how the method of selecting women leaders affects other women’s leadership interest. Results of three experiments (N=1,015) indicated that only when women leaders were selected due to merit, not quota-based policies, did they boost female participants’ interest in a leadership position. These reactions were mediated by percep...
This online experiment examined how Iranian women and men (N = 525; 321 women, 204 men) perceived a heterosexual rape encounter depending on the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator. Participants read a vignette describing a non-consensual sexual encounter in which the victim and the perpetrator were either married or dating. They th...
Careers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are stereotypically perceived as the work of women, and men less often pursue them. Consequently, men are highly underrepresented in child care work worldwide, and when men work in ECEC, they are often treated as “other”—different from the feminine default. Yet, increasing men’s representation in...
In Ireland, only two percent of the staff in early childhood education are men. The situation is similar in most other European countries, where men make up less than five percent of workers who educate and care for young children (OECD, 2020). Increasingly, research is being conducted with an aim to understanding why men are underrepresented in ea...
This pre-registered study examined the prevalence and correlates of sexual aggression in a sample of 530 Iranians (322 women, 208 men) with a behaviorally specific questionnaire distinguishing between different coercive strategies, victim-perpetrator relationships, and sexual acts. Significantly more women (63.0%) than men (51.0%) experienced at le...
Men are widely underrepresented in early childhood education and care worldwide. Professional childcare is often believed to require communal qualities typically associated with the female gender role, like being sensitive to others' needs. Men's underrepresentation in childcare work likely occurs as a result of the perceived incongruity between co...
Integrität, Ethik und Verantwortungsbewusstsein sind Werte, die immer mehr Unternehmen in ihrer Kultur verankern möchten. Damit das gelingt, ist das Führungsverhalten zentral.
To decrease inequality between men and women in the workplace, multiple European countries have introduced legislated quota regulations in favor of women. Since 2016, a gender quota has been entrenched in German law followed by a significant rise in the representation of women in target positions. But do quota regulations have additional effects on...
This meta-analysis integrated 16 nationally representative U.S. public opinion polls on gender stereotypes (N = 30,093 adults), extending from 1946 to 2018, a span of seven decades that brought considerable change in gender relations, especially in women's roles. In polls inquiring about communion (e.g., affectionate, emotional), agency (e.g., ambi...
Um die Ungleichheit zwischen Männern und Frauen im Berufskontext zu verringern, wurden in den letzten Jahren in mehreren europäischen Ländern Quotenregeln zugunsten von Frauen eingeführt. Seit 2016 gibt es auch in Deutschland eine gesetzlich verankerte Frauenquote in der Privatwirtschaft und die gewünschte Wirkung, eine signifikante Erhöhung des Fr...
This chapter shows that agency and communion are essential to understanding the psychology of gender. Gender stereotypes, in their descriptive and prescriptive forms, follow from a societal division of labor whereby women tend to be concentrated in communally demanding roles and men in agentically demanding roles. People’s inferences of communal an...
Gender inequality is an ongoing problem in social life and remains a crucial issue for many societies (e.g., the United Nations’ HeForShe Programme, 2016, www.heforshe.org/en). One mechanism that may contribute to the persistence of gender inequality is gender stereotyping, that is, the specific beliefs people hold about the characteristics that wo...
This research investigates how affirmative action policies in job advertisements for leadership positions affect women’s and men’s inclination to apply. Management students (N=389) received advertisements which differed in the strictness of announced gender policies: No statement, women explicitly invited to apply, preferential treatment of equally...
This review examines the overall accuracy of social perception across several research topics and identifies factors that influence the accuracy of social perception. Findings from 14 meta-analyses examining topics such as social/personality judgments, health judgments, legal judgments, and academic/vocational judgments were obtained. Social percep...
