The Psycho-Cultural Analysis of Sex Discrimination
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| Title | The Psycho-Cultural Analysis of Sex Discrimination |
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| Abstract | A patriarchal society allocates roles to its members on the basis of sex which are the set of expectations defined by it. These roles specify what traits are to be acquired by men and women with certain sex-specific personality attributes called masculine and feminine. Masculinity is associated with instrumental orientation, whereas femininity with affective orientation, as a result of which males and females develop such dispositional characteristics in their daily life activities. Males outperform females in problem-solving task as their main focus is getting the job done; females do better in social tasks requiring sociability, submissiveness and sociability, the offshoot of which is fear of success which means that females lower their performance as a fear of deviance from sex role standards by conforming to socially accepted values internalized in early years. Other resultant factors are attitudinal where females are evaluated negatively. The present study is an attempt to focus on certain psychological and cultural factors which are associated with sex discrimination and resultant poor performance of females or their inability to give in their best where there is a possibility otherwise. |
| Publisher | World Science Publisher |
| Date | 2012-06-18 |
| Source | 2167-6429 |
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