Sex Roles

Papers
(The median citation count of Sex Roles is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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The Gendered Resource Dilution: Sibling Structure, Parental Non-Monetary Investment, and Child Housework Labor in China48
Do Images Speak Louder Than Words? Effects of Body Positive and Fitspiration Quotes and Images on State Body Image in Women and Men44
Sexual Orientation as Gendered to the Everyday Perceiver36
Punishing Women for Miscarriage: The role of Political Orientation and Hostile Sexism27
Unmarried Black Women’s Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating, Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types26
The Sex-Based Harassment Inventory: A Gender Status Threat Measure of Sex-Based Harassment Intentions24
Mean Girls in Disguise? Associations Between Vulnerable Narcissism and Perpetration of Bullying Among Women22
Is Online Disinhibition Related to Cyberdating Abuse Perpetration through Moral Disengagement? The Moderating Role of Gender, Sexism, and Cybervictimization20
People Overestimate Backlash Against Helpers Who Violate Gender Stereotypes: Experimental Examination of a Prosociality Paradox19
Men’s Perception of Women’s Passive Sexual Responses Impacts Their Decision-Making During Simulated Hookups18
Mother Like Mothers and Work Like Fathers: U.S. Heterosexual College Students’ Assumptions About Who Should Meet Childcare and Housework Demands18
Trans Across Generations: Shifts in Narratives of Gender, Transphobic Violence, and Community Support17
Sex Wars and TERF Wars: The Divisiveness of Who is Included in Feminism17
Asian American Women’s Racial Dating Preferences: An Investigation of Internalized Racism, Resistance and Empowerment against Racism, and Desire for Status16
Understanding Perceptions of Gender Non-Binary People: Consensual and Unique Stereotypes and Prejudice15
Flourishing in a Binary World: The Creation of Transgender Alternative Narratives14
Revealing Gender Double Standards in the Parenthood Norm Depends on Question Order13
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce: Examining Women’s Experiences and Variations by Race/Ethnicity13
Benevolent Sexism in the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP): A Case Study of Texas House Bill 213
Self-Defense as an Effective and Neglected Form of Sexual Assault Prevention: A Commentary and Overdue Correction to the Literature12
Postnatal Depression: The Role of “Good Mother” Ideals and Maternal Shame in a Community Sample of Mothers in Australia12
Testing an Integrated Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Girls’ Body Shame: Considering the Role of Pubertal Development12
Underrepresented Rather than Misrepresented? A Content Analysis of Female Characters’ (non)Sexualization in Virtual Reality (VR) Games12
Who Gets Canceled for Sexual Assault?: The Roles of Likeability and Tactic on Perceived Perpetrator Accountability10
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction10
Orgasm Frequency Predicts Desire and Expectation for Orgasm: Assessing the Orgasm Gap within Mixed-Sex Couples10
Who Can Do STEM?: Children’s Gendered Beliefs about STEM and Non-STEM Competence and Learning10
Hegemonic Masculinity and Mental Health Among Older White Men in the U.S.: The Role of Health and Wealth Decline10
Are Feminists Empowered Activists or Entitled Whiners? A Thematic Analysis of U.S. Adolescents’ Definitions of “Feminist” in a Diverse, Mixed-Gender Sample9
Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem9
Nonverbal Gendered Cues as Accurate Signals of Sexual Orientation8
Harder Won and Easier Lost? Testing the Double Standard in Gender Rules in 62 Countries8
Gender-Typing of Children’s Sports Toys Persists: A Mixed-Methods Investigation8
“You Did It to Yourself”: An Exploratory Study of Myths About Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse Among Men8
Women’s Engagement in Political Discussion on Twitter: The Role of Gender Salience, Resources, and Race/Ethnicity8
Teaching College in the Time of COVID-19: Gender and Race Differences in Faculty Emotional Labor8
Am I man Enough?: A Qualitative Study of African American Heterosexual Men’s Attitudes Toward Marriage7
Correction to: It Takes Two to Tango: Links Between Traditional Beliefs About both Men’s and Women’s Gender Roles and Comfort Initiating Sex and Comfort Refusing Sex7
Correction to: Piecing Together Respectability: Black Women’s Reflections on Familial Socialization Messages7
Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood7
“Sport Belongs to Everyone… But Not During Pregnancy”: Views of Finnish Sport Stakeholders on Pregnancy in Sport7
Tech-Savvy Men and Caring Women: Middle School Students’ Gender Stereotypes Predict Interest in Tech-Education7
Correction to: Motor Skill Learning in Iranian Girls: Effects of a Relatively Long Induction of Gender Stereotypes7
Emphasizing the Communal Demands of a Leader Role Makes Job Interviews Less Stressful for Women But Not More Successful7
“There’s No Sewing Classes, There’s No Bedazzling Seminars”: The Impact of Masculinity on Social Connectedness and Mental Health for Men Living in Inner-Regional Australia7
Mothers’ Domestic Responsibilities and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Moderating Role of Gender Essentialist Beliefs About Parenthood7
No Room of her Own: Married Couples’ Negotiation of Workspace at Home During COVID-197
Women’s Sexual Agency, Pleasure, and Orgasm in Popular Netflix Series: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Mixed-Gender Scenes7
Gender Differences in Children’s Reasoning About and Motivation to Pursue Leadership Roles6
Playing the Game Differently: How Women Leaders in Academia Are Challenging Neopatriarchy6
Author Correction: “I Think Most of Society Hates Us”: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Incels6
Correction to: In Their Footsteps or Shadow? Gender Differences in Choosing a STEM Major as a Function of Sibling Configuration and Older Sibling’s Gender and Math Ability6
Feminist Beliefs, Not Gender Equality Primes, Shape Self-Reported Partner Preferences6
Engagement in Pro-Choice Protests: The Role of Gender, Feminism, Gender Collective Self-Esteem, and Reactance Against Abortion Bans6
A Longitudinal Study of Pubertal Timing and Tempo on Body Shame Among Young Adolescent Girls and Boys6
Correction to: Implicit and Explicit Sexist Attitudes towards Women Drivers6
Predictors of Transgender Prejudice: A Meta-Analysis6
Evidence for a Comprehensive Sexuality Education Intervention that Enhances Chinese Adolescents’ Sexual Knowledge and Gender Awareness and Empowers Young Women5
Is Emma or Liam the Top Scorer in Math? The Effects of a Counter-Stereotypical Role Model on Math Achievement5
Women’s Experiences of Sexual Harassment and Reductions in Well-Being and System Justification5
Why Can’t You Just Pick One? The Stigmatization of Non-binary/Genderqueer People by Cis and Trans Men and Women: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory5
Something to Prove? Manhood Threats Increase Political Aggression Among Liberal Men5
Mother’s Instinct? Biological Essentialism and Parents’ Involvement in Work and Childcare5
The Gender Similarities Hypothesis: Insights From A Multilevel Analysis of High-Stakes Examination Results in Mathematics5
Devaluation of Women’s Sexual Pleasure: Role of Relationship Context and Endorsement of the Madonna-Whore Dichotomy5
Stereotypes About Who is Affected by Eating Disorders Disadvantage Risk Perception for Black Girls and Women5
Protecting a Positive View of the Self: Female Gamers’ Strategic Self-Attribution of Stereotypes5
Sexual Socialization Experiences and Perceived Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Young African American Women5
Sexual Objectification in Family of Origin Scale: Development and Psychometric Evaluation5
Parents’ Pre-Pandemic Benevolent Sexism Predicted Lower Parenting Strain and Psychological Distress During COVID-19 Lockdowns4
Relating Profiles of Ethnocultural Gender Roles to Mental Health and Help-Seeking Attitudes among Latina Women4
Microaggressions as a Framework for Understanding Women’s STEM Career Experiences in Lebanon4
Effects of Gender-Fair Language on the Cognitive Representation of Women in Stereotypically Masculine Occupations and Occupational Self-Efficacy Among Primary School Girls and Boys4
The Allocation of Housework in Same- and Different-Sex Partnerships: Recent Evidence from the U.S4
Strategic Masculine Disinvestment: Understanding Contemporary Transformations of Masculinity and Their Psychosocial Implications4
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality4
Development and Validation of the Ambivalent Homoprejudice Toward Lesbian Women at Work Scale4
Testing the Internal Consent Scale for Measurement Invariance Across Women and Men4
Reflections About What I Learned as an Editor Making Judgments about Gender and Gendered Contexts with a Feminist Perspective4
“It Literally Makes Me Feel Harder to Kill”: A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Benefits of Recreational Martial Arts Practice Among Women Sexual Assault Survivors4
Sisters in Arms: Lowering Rape Myth Acceptance in a Hypermasculine Environment4
Women’s Intention to Apply to Top-Executive Positions: The Role of Gender Meta-Stereotypes in Job Ads4
Exposure to Lived Representations of Abortion in Popular Television Program Plotlines on Abortion-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Support: An Exploratory Study4
Picturing Sexual Agency: A Visual Content Analysis of Adults’ Sexual Stereotypes of Young Women4
Comparisons of Health-Related Quality of Life among Users of Different Types of Menstrual Products: A Study of Taiwanese University Students4
Same Place, Different Worlds: An Emergent Fit Analysis of the Experiences of Iranian Trans Women and Trans Men4
Gender-Critical or Gender-Inclusive?: Radical Feminism is Associated with Positive Attitudes toward Trans* People and Their Rights3
Gender and National Collective Narcissism: Gender Asymmetries and Obstacles to Gender Equality3
Alcohol Use and Hostility Toward Women: Individual and Perceived Peer Attitudes Shape College Men's Consent Behavior3
Status Markers in Popular Music Across Six Countries: A Content Analysis of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Genre, and Capital in Music Lyrics3
“They Want a Porn Star that Has Never Watched Porn”: Double Binds and Standards in Young Women’s Talk about Heterosex3
Changes in Female Rape Myth Acceptance Among College Students: A 20-Year Perspective3
Sexual Aggression among Women and Men in an Iranian Sample: Prevalence and Correlates3
Penalized for Challenging Traditional Gender Roles: Why Heterosexual Relationships in Which Women Wear the Pants May Be More Precarious3
Gendered Impact of Caregiving Responsibilities on Tenure Track Faculty Parents’ Professional Lives3
Bisexual Women’s Meaning Making of Same-Sex Performativity: Orientation Towards a Heteropatriarchal Context3
PTSD and Complex PTSD Symptoms among Israeli Women Veterans: Role of Conformity to Masculine Norms and Coping Strategies3
Is Marriage Associated With Decreases or Increases in Sexism?3
Do I Say or Let it Go? Emotions Predict How People Respond to Receiving Sexual Objectification at Work3
The Negative Effects of Positive Gender Stereotypes: Evidence from a Collectivistic Cultural Context3
Examining Changes in Abortion Attitudes Following the Transition to Parenthood3
Feminism, Femininity, and Negative Embodiment: A Contemporary Meta-Analytic Test3
Merit Sticks to Men: Gender Pay Gaps and (In)equality at UK Russell Group Universities3
Parents’ Gender Role Attitudes and Child Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Parental Involvement3
Dangerous Motivations: Understanding How Marginalization Relates to Benevolent Sexism Through Threat Perceptions2
Victim Silence, Perpetrator Denial, and Institutional Shielding: An Archival Study of Gendered Power Imbalances in Sexual Assaults at Chinese Universities2
“A Fire in my Belly:” Conceptualizing U.S. Women’s Experiences of “Mom Rage”2
Are Gender Differences in Vocational Interests Universal?: Moderating Effects of Cultural Dimensions2
It Depends! Contextual Variability in Feminist Identity Disclosure Among Binary and Nonbinary Individuals2
Positive and Future-Focused vs. I-Focused: A Comparative Examination of Effective Conflict Resolution Scripts to Minimize Gender Backlash in Engineering Settings2
Correction to: Children’s Evaluations of Gender Non-Conforming Peers2
Cloaked in Kindness: Bystander Responses to Witnessed Benevolent and Hostile Sexism2
Gender Categorization and Stereotypes Beyond the Binary2
Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology2
Making Men of Steel: Superhero Exposure and the Development of Hegemonic Masculinity in Children2
An Intersectional Analysis of Women's Experiences of Inclusion in the United States Army2
Blame of Rape Victims and Perpetrators in China: The Role of Gender, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Situational Factors2
Children’s Evaluations of Gender Non-Conforming Peers2
A Moderated Mediation Model of Masculinity Contest Culture and Psychological Well-Being: The Role of Sexual Harassment, Bullying, Organizational Tolerance and Position in Organization2
How We Talk to Kids: Adults Prefer Different Forms of Language for Children Based on Gender Expression2
These Boots Weren’t Made for Walking: Gendered Discrepancies in Wearing Painful, Restricting, or Distracting Clothing2
Instagram Use and Endorsement of a Voluptuous Body Ideal: A Serial Mediation Model2
Correction to: Agency Penalties From Taking Parental Leave for Women in Men-Dominated Occupations: Archival and Experimental Evidence2
Do Scales Measuring Sexist Attitudes have Equivalent Meaning for Sexual Minorities and Majorities?2
Correction to: Gender Differences in Children’s Reasoning About and Motivation to Pursue Leadership Roles2
Less Equal, Less Satisfied? Gender Inequality Hampers Adults’ Subjective Well-Being via Gender-Role Attitudes2
Sociocultural Messages about Gender Dysphoria (Dis)Align with the Lived Experiences of Trans and Nonbinary Individuals: A Qualitative Study2
Body Shame in 7–12-Year-Old Girls and Boys: The Role of Parental Attention to Children’s Appearance2
“It Wasn’t Meant for Gays”: Lesbian Women’s and Gay Men’s Reactions to the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory2
Masculinity and Muscle Dysmorphia in Mixed Gender Canadian Youth2
Cultural Tightness is Linked to Higher Self-Objectification in Women (But Not Men): Multi-Method Evidence2
Reconceptualizing the Gendered Division of Housework: Number of Shared Tasks and Partners’ Relationship Quality2
Gender Performativity and Postfeminist Parenting in Children’s Television Shows2
Impulsivity, Binegativity, Drinking to Cope, and Alcohol-related Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model Among Bisexual Women2
Gender Confirmation Work, Rest, and Symbolic Boundaries in (Trans)Gender Support Groups2
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor2
Fleshing Out the Ways Masculinity Threat and Traditional Masculinity Ideology Relate to Meat-Eating and Environmental Attitudes in Australian Men2
Motor Skill Learning in Iranian Girls: Effects of a Relatively Long Induction of Gender Stereotypes2
The Gender Gap in Environmental Concern: Support for an Ecofeminist Perspective and the Role of Gender Egalitarian Attitudes2
Author Correction: “I Think Most of Society Hates Us”: a Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Incels2
Work-Family Conflicts and Perceived Fairness of Housework Division in Dual-Earner Couples During COVID-192
Gender Bias in Perceptions of Military Leaders: Hostile Sexism Moderates Men’s Evaluations of Faces2
The Gendered Influence of Cross-Gender Friends on the Development of Adolescents’ Gender Role Attitudes1
High White Racial Identity Predicts Low Allyship With a Black Female Sexual Harassment Complainant: The Critical Role of the Benevolence of a White Alleged Perpetrator1
A Qualitative Analysis of the Fertility Experience and Gender Identity in Young Women Following Hysterectomy for Benign Disease1
Culture’s Clashing Identities: Gendered Differences in Anticipated Role Conflict for Students in Graduate Degree Programs1
Growing Up Intersex: A Thematic Analysis of Intersex Emerging Adults’ Key Socialization Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence1
Growing Up Too “Fast”: Black Girls’ Sexual Development1
College Students’ Perceptions of Ambiguous Hook-ups Involving Alcohol Intoxication1
Self-Objectification During the Perinatal Period: The Role of Body Surveillance in Maternal and Infant Wellbeing1
A Critical Review of Measures of Gender Equitable Attitudes: Recommendations for Conceptualization and Future Assessment1
Masculinity and Mental Well-Being: The Role of Stigma Attached to Help-Seeking Among Men1
“Why Can’t Boys Be #LikeAGirl?”: Sticky Essentialism and Ambivalent (De)gendering in Fathers’ Online Accounts of Children’s Gender and Sexuality1
Promoting Inclusive Environments: In-group Organizational Endorsement as a Tool to Increase Feelings of Identity-Safety among Black Women1
Diverse Gender Identity Development: A Qualitative Synthesis and Development of a New Contemporary Framework1
Manfluencers and Young Men’s Misogynistic Attitudes: The Role of Perceived Threats to Men’s Status1
Women’s Income-generating Activity and Experiences of Economic Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh1
Like Parent, like Child: General and Specific Associations Between Parents’ and Children’s Binary Gender Identity in a Gender Egalitarian Context1
Gaming with a Feminist: Sexism and Perception of Sexist Incidents in Online Video Games1
Media Portrayals of Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Comparative Analysis of News Headlines Across Europe1
Bullying in Five European Countries: Evidence for Bringing Gendered Phenomena Under the Umbrella of ‘Sexual Bullying’ in Research and Practice1
Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China1
Using the Internalized Misogyny Scale Across Sexual Orientations: Measurement Invariance and Item Factor Analysis1
Double-Edged Sword or Outright Harmful?: Associations Between Strong Black Woman Schema and Resilience, Self-Efficacy, and Flourishing1
Systemic Powers, Institutionalized Thinking and Situated Knowledge: A Qualitative Exploration on the Meanings of ‘Menstruation’ and ‘Menstrual Health’ in Spain1
“A Dad Can Get the Money and the Mom Stays at Home”: Patriarchal Gender Role Attitudes, Intimate Partner Violence, Historical Oppression, and Resilience Among Indigenous Peoples1
Humorous Responses to Gender Injustice: The Contrasting Effects of Efficacy and Emotions on Women’s Collective Action Intentions1
Women’s Endorsement of Heteronormative Dating Scripts is Predicted by Sexism, Feminist Identity, A Preference for Dominant Men, and A Preference Against Short-Term Relationships1
Masculinity and Condom Use: Using a Rejection Sensitivity Framework to Understand Women’s Condom Negotiation in Mixed-Gender Sexual Encounters1
Unconscious Bias in Job Titles: Implicit Associations Between Four Different Linguistic Forms with Women and Men1
Welcome to a Pink and Blue World! An Analysis of Gender-Typed Content in Birth Announcement Cards From 1940–2019 in the Netherlands1
Not All of Me Is Welcome Here: The Experiences of Trans and Gender Expansive Employees of Color in the U.S.1
Positive Contact with Feminist Women as a Predictor of Feminist Solidarity, Gender Privilege Awareness, and Public and Domestic Support for Gender Equality in Straight Men1
Teen Girls’ Experiences Negotiating the Ubiquitous Dick Pic: Sexual Double Standards and the Normalization of Image Based Sexual Harassment1
Gender Differences in the Implicit and Explicit Perceptions of Sport1
The G-NORM Scale: Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Gender Norms Scale1
Gender Stereotypes Selectively Affect the Remembering of Highly Valued Professions1
An Adapted Sociocultural Model of Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating Among Midlife Men1
Undoing Gendered Identities? Centrality and Meanings of Parental and Work Identities in Semi-Traditional, Equal-Sharing and Role-Reversed Couples1
“I Think Most of Society Hates Us”: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Incels1
Achieving Equality or Persisting Inequality: Effects of Framing of Equality on Attitudes Toward Women and Gender Equality Through Identity Threat and Cognitive Unfreezing1
Doing and Redoing Emphasized Femininity: How Women Use Emotion Work to Manage Competing Expectations in College Hookup Culture1
Sexist Attitudes, Relationship Conflict and Satisfaction in Heterosexual Couples, and Men’s and Women’s Wellbeing1
Acknowledging that Men are Moral and Harmed by Gender Stereotypes Increases Men’s Willingness to Engage in Collective Action on Behalf of Women1
Dual-Earner Couples’ Gender Role Attitudes and Their Parental Leave Decisions: A Longitudinal Study of Partner Influences1
Let’s Talk About Single Men: A Qualitative Investigation of Never Married Men’s Experiences of Singlehood1
“Their Great Shame is Poverty”: Women Portrayed as Among the “Undeserving Poor” are Seen as Deserving Sexual Assault1
Transgender Knowledge Mediates U.S. Political Differences in Prejudice and Support for Trans-inclusive Policies1
Making the Personal Political: Personal versus Group-Focused Rumination Following Sexual Harassment1
Children’s Physical Gender Schemas: Acquisition and Features1
Teachers’ Gender-Role Attitudes and Gendered Classroom Practices1
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