OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sex Roles is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Feminist Beliefs, Not Gender Equality Primes, Shape Self-Reported Partner Preferences	69
Author Correction: “I Think Most of Society Hates Us”: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Incels	55
Mind the Gap: Gender, Racial, and Educational Differences in American Gender Attitudes from 1977 to 2018	54
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce: Examining Women’s Experiences and Variations by Race/Ethnicity	36
Benevolent Sexism in the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP): A Case Study of Texas House Bill 2	29
“Sport Belongs to Everyone… But Not During Pregnancy”: Views of Finnish Sport Stakeholders on Pregnancy in Sport	28
The Gendered Resource Dilution: Sibling Structure, Parental Non-Monetary Investment, and Child Housework Labor in China	27
“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 Australia	24
Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood	24
Unmarried Black Women’s Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating, Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types	23
“Even Here”: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Gender Bias Incidents at a Selective Liberal Arts College	22
Tech-Savvy Men and Caring Women: Middle School Students’ Gender Stereotypes Predict Interest in Tech-Education	22
Orgasm Frequency Predicts Desire and Expectation for Orgasm: Assessing the Orgasm Gap within Mixed-Sex Couples	21
Effectiveness of Interventions for Transgender Prejudice Reduction: A Meta-Analysis	19
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality	18
Development and Validation of the Ambivalent Homoprejudice Toward Lesbian Women at Work Scale	18
Sociocultural Messages about Gender Dysphoria (Dis)Align with the Lived Experiences of Trans and Nonbinary Individuals: A Qualitative Study	18
“It Wasn’t Meant for Gays”: Lesbian Women’s and Gay Men’s Reactions to the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory	15
Motor Skill Learning in Iranian Girls: Effects of a Relatively Long Induction of Gender Stereotypes	15
Correction to: Children’s Evaluations of Gender Non-Conforming Peers	15
Men’s Help-Seeking Willingness and Disclosure of Depression: Experimental Evidence for the Role of Pluralistic Ignorance	14
“A Fire in my Belly:” Conceptualizing U.S. Women’s Experiences of “Mom Rage”	14
Achieving Equality or Persisting Inequality: Effects of Framing of Equality on Attitudes Toward Women and Gender Equality Through Identity Threat and Cognitive Unfreezing	14
Masculinity and Muscle Dysmorphia in Mixed Gender Canadian Youth	13
Diverse Gender Identity Development: A Qualitative Synthesis and Development of a New Contemporary Framework	13

Gender Confirmation Work, Rest, and Symbolic Boundaries in (Trans)Gender Support Groups	12
Cloaked in Kindness: Bystander Responses to Witnessed Benevolent and Hostile Sexism	12
Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China	12
Masculinity and Condom Use: Using a Rejection Sensitivity Framework to Understand Women’s Condom Negotiation in Mixed-Gender Sexual Encounters	12
Transgender Knowledge Mediates U.S. Political Differences in Prejudice and Support for Trans-inclusive Policies	11
Correction to: An Adapted Sociocultural Model of Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating among Midlife Men	11
An Adapted Sociocultural Model of Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating Among Midlife Men	11
Like Parent, like Child: General and Specific Associations Between Parents’ and Children’s Binary Gender Identity in a Gender Egalitarian Context	11
Comparison, Competition, and Consumption: The 3Cs of Contemporary Motherhood in the Context of Children’s Education	10
The Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Computer Science Faculty’s Turnover Intentions: The Role of Gender	10
Traditionally and Narrowly Defined: Gender Portrayals in Television Programming Targeting Babies and Toddlers	10
Assault Typologies of College Rape Victims: A Mixed Methods Investigation	10
Collective Action on Behalf of Women: Testing the Conceptual Distinction Between Traditional Collective Action and Small Acts in College Women	10
Male Victimhood Ideology Among Korean Men: Is It Economic Hardship or Perceived Status Decline?	9
Identifying Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Patterns and Co-occurrence of Post-Breakup Stalking Among South Korean Men	9
Strong Hero or Violent Playboy? Portrayals of Masculinity in Children’s Animated Movies	9
Caring or Competent? Apparent Prioritization of Childcare Over Work Affects Evaluations and Stereotyping of Fathers	9
Gender Differences in the Work and Home Spheres for Teachers, and Longitudinal Associations with Depressive Symptoms in a Swedish Cohort	9
The Contribution of Gender Equality to the Coexistence of Progressive Abortion and Sexual Orientation Laws	9
Riot Like a Girl? Gender-Stereotypical Associations Boost Support for Feminist Online Campaigns	9
The Gendered Influence of Cross-Gender Friends on the Development of Adolescents’ Gender Role Attitudes	9
Career Identities and Gender-STEM Stereotypes: When and Why Implicit Gender-STEM Associations Emerge and How They Affect Women’s College Major Choice	9
Identifying Pathways to the Incel Community and Where to Intervene: A Qualitative Study with Former Incels	9
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 Ability	8
Changes in Sexual, Romantic, and Gender Identities Across the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study	8
“When It Fits Wrong, I’m So Self-Conscious I Want to Die!”: Women’s Experiences Wearing Plus-Size Exercise Clothing	8
“A Recipe for Disaster?”: Female-Breadwinner Relationships Threaten Heterosexual Scripts	8
Fiber Arts Require Spatial Skills: How a Stereotypically Feminine Practice Can Help Us Understand Spatial Skills and Improve Spatial Learning	8
Implicit and Explicit Sexist Attitudes Towards Women Drivers	8
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 Sex	8
The “Princess Syndrome”: An Examination of Gender Harassment on a Male-Majority University Campus	8
Unmasking Street Harassment in Spain: Prevalence, Psychological Impact, and the Role of Sexism in Women’s Experiences	7
Too Tired to Lean In? Sleep Quality Impacts Women’s Daily Intentions to Pursue Workplace Status	7
The Sexual Objectification Experiences of Non-Binary People: Embodied Impacts and Acts of Resistance	7
Do Images Speak Louder Than Words? Effects of Body Positive and Fitspiration Quotes and Images on State Body Image in Women and Men	7
My Body, My Choice? Examining the Distinct Profiles Underlying Attitudes Toward Abortion and COVID-19 Mandates	7
Do Virtual Environments Close the Gender Gap in Participation in Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences? In Search of Moderation by Conference Format	7
The Unbearable Weight of Gender Inequalities: Development and Validation of the Social Treatment and Experiences of Women (STEW) Scale	7
Revealing Gender Double Standards in the Parenthood Norm Depends on Question Order	7
Beyond the Barbell: Women in Strength-Based Sports and the Reshaping of Gender Norms	7
Correction to: Raising Resilient Black Women: A Study of Superwoman Mothering and Strength as a Form of Gendered Racial Socialization in Black Mother-Daughter Relationships	7
Perceptions of Parental Responses to Gender Stereotype Violations in Children	7
Spatial Skills and Self-Perceived Masculinity: Considering College Major STEM-ness, Directionality, and Gender	7
Women’s Engagement in Political Discussion on Twitter: The Role of Gender Salience, Resources, and Race/Ethnicity	6
Mean Girls in Disguise? Associations Between Vulnerable Narcissism and Perpetration of Bullying Among Women	6
Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem	6
Punishing Women for Miscarriage: The role of Political Orientation and Hostile Sexism	6
Nonverbal Gendered Cues as Accurate Signals of Sexual Orientation	6
People Overestimate Backlash Against Helpers Who Violate Gender Stereotypes: Experimental Examination of a Prosociality Paradox	6
Workplace Experiences of Muslim Women in STEM in Canada: An Intersectional Qualitative Analysis	6

Testing an Integrated Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Girls’ Body Shame: Considering the Role of Pubertal Development	6
The Sex-Based Harassment Inventory: A Gender Status Threat Measure of Sex-Based Harassment Intentions	6
Flourishing in a Binary World: The Creation of Transgender Alternative Narratives	5
Feminism, Femininity, and Negative Embodiment: A Contemporary Meta-Analytic Test	5
Changes in Female Rape Myth Acceptance Among College Students: A 20-Year Perspective	5
Testing the Internal Consent Scale for Measurement Invariance Across Women and Men	5
Picturing Sexual Agency: A Visual Content Analysis of Adults’ Sexual Stereotypes of Young Women	5
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction	5
Reflections About What I Learned as an Editor Making Judgments about Gender and Gendered Contexts with a Feminist Perspective	5
Is Marriage Associated With Decreases or Increases in Sexism?	5
Same Place, Different Worlds: An Emergent Fit Analysis of the Experiences of Iranian Trans Women and Trans Men	5
Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology	5
Bisexual Women’s Meaning Making of Same-Sex Performativity: Orientation Towards a Heteropatriarchal Context	5
Is Online Disinhibition Related to Cyberdating Abuse Perpetration through Moral Disengagement? The Moderating Role of Gender, Sexism, and Cybervictimization	5
Alcohol Use and Hostility Toward Women: Individual and Perceived Peer Attitudes Shape College Men's Consent Behavior	5
Blame of Rape Victims and Perpetrators in China: The Role of Gender, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Situational Factors	5
“It Literally Makes Me Feel Harder to Kill”: A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Benefits of Recreational Martial Arts Practice Among Women Sexual Assault Survivors	5
Effects of Gender-Fair Language on the Cognitive Representation of Women in Stereotypically Masculine Occupations and Occupational Self-Efficacy Among Primary School Girls and Boys	5