besides textbooks teach students, prepare them to accept their roles in accordance with their gender characteristics, as it is considered by the authors. this study is intended to represent how women’s social – political roles in both elementary and middle high school textbooks, academic year deal 1391-92. research method is quantitative content analysis based on gender in education between ima...

Research suggests that women, but not men, manifest gender-biased expectations of altruism: while women expect other women to be more altruistic, men expect women to be as generous as men. Do adolescents expect women and men to behave differently regarding altruism? I analyse adolescents’ gender beliefs about altruism using a modified Dictator Game. Results indicate that adolescents believe tha...

OBJECTIVE A set of guidelines to assist men with traumatic brain injury (TBI) to alleviate gender role strain was assessed to determine its effectiveness and acceptability to participants. METHOD Four adult male participants with TBI received the intervention (the set of guidelines) for 4 months. The intervention consisted of rebuilding self-identified gendered social roles and activities. Fo...

BACKGROUND Gender roles have been assessed by explicit measures and, recently, by implicit measures. In the former case, the theoretical assumptions have been questioned by empirical results. To solve this contradiction, we carried out two concatenated studies based on a relatively well-founded theoretical and empirical approach. METHOD The first study was designed to obtain a sample of gende...

Women are fecund for a shorter period of their lives than men. This paper investigates how di erential fecundity interacts with marriage, labor and nancial markets to a ect gender roles. The main ndings of the paper are: (i) Di erential fecundity does not have any market invariant gender e ect. (ii) Gender roles depend on competition for mates in the marriage market and the way in which ex-post...

This article has two goals, an intellectual history of gender as a concept, and to outline a framework we suggest for moving forward theory and research on gender conceptualized as a structure of social stratification. Our first goal is to trace the conceptual development of the study of sex and gender throughout the twentieth century to now. We do this from a feminist sociological standpoint, ...

This article is an inquiry into the extent to which, and how, roles of men and women in indigenous communities in north-central Siberia have changed along with the changing economic and political context from the 1917 Communist Revolution to the post-Soviet era. The starting point for this investigation is archived data from the 1926/27 Polar Census of Siberia. Fieldwork conducted in the region...

Gender and power are theoretical constructs linked to discussions of sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS among heterosexual couples. Despite the fact that HIV rates are rising among young men who have sex with men in the United States, work examining the role of gender in sexual decision making of young men who have sex with men remains in its infancy. Through qualitative interviews with 34 young g...