scholarly journals “Dad, Wash Your Hands”: Gender, Care Work, and Attitudes toward Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 237802312096437
Author(s):  
Janani Umamaheswar ◽  
Catherine Tan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Masculine Norms ◽  
Depth Interviews

Recent analyses of responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have posited that men’s dismissive attitudes toward the risks of the virus reflect their attempts to conform to masculine norms that valorize bravery and strength. In this article, the authors develop an alternative account of the gender differences in attitudes toward COVID-19. Drawing on three waves of in-depth interviews with college students and members of their households ( n = 45) over a period of 16 weeks (for a total of 120 interviews), the authors find that men and women in comparable circumstances perceive similar risks of COVID-19, but they diverge in their attitudes toward, and responses to, these risks. Connecting scholarship on gender and care work with research on risk, the authors argue that gender differences in attitudes toward risk are influenced by the unique and strenuous care work responsibilities generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which are borne primarily by women—and from which men are exempt.

Triangulations of “Motherly Love”: Negotiated Intimacies among Migrant Domestic Workers, Mothers, and Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2199385
Author(s):  
Iris Hoiting
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
Care Relationships ◽  
Relational Contexts ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Persistent economic inequality between men and women, combined with differences in gender expectations and growing inequalities among women globally, has resulted in families “outsourcing” childcare by employing migrant domestic workers (MDWs). While studies have addressed the intimacy and complexity of “mothering” in such contexts, the agentic position of child-recipients of such care have seldom been explored. This article increases our understanding of care-relationships by examining their triangularity among children, MDWs, and mothers in Hong Kong. Drawing on in-depth interviews with young people who grew up with MDWs, alongside interviews with MDWs themselves, this article describes processes through which care work transforms into what Lynch describes as “love labor” in these relational contexts. In these contexts, commodified care from MDWs can develop, through a process of mutual trilateral negotiations, into intimate love-laboring relationships that, in turn, reflect larger dynamics of familial transformation that are endemic to “global cities.”

Do Men and Women Differ in Their Perceptions of Stalking: An Exploratory Study Among College Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric G. Lambert ◽  
Brad Smith ◽  
James Geistman ◽  
Terry Cluse-Tolar ◽  
Shanhe Jiang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Relational Partners

Stalking is a crime that can terrify its victims and ultimately take a severe emotional toll. Although a growing body of research has examined stalking experiences and reactions of victims, there has been far less research on whether men and women differ in their perceptions of stalking. Toward this end, a survey of college students at a large public 4-year Midwestern university was undertaken. We examined differences in how men and women view stalking and whether gender differences were moderated by prior stalking experience. Specifically, we examined whether there were gender differences in perceptions of the pervasiveness of stalking, the harm stalking does, who tends to be stalked, if stalking mainly involves former relational partners, possible motivations for stalking, the line between courtship and stalking, and notions of victim blaming. We found significant differences in stalking views between men and women on all the measures, except for perceptions of the line between courtship and stalking. Women tended to perceive stalking as more pervasive and harmful. Men were more likely to perceive stalking as involving strangers and to blame the victim for the stalking. Female and male respondents also differed in their perceptions of motivations for stalking. Prior victim stalking experience did not moderate the gender differences. Although being a prior stalking victim had a significant association with 4 of the 7 stalking perception variables, its effect sizes were smaller than that of gender.

Beyond Surviving

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally V. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
New South ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews

The aim of this research project was to explore how men and women constructed a sense of self through narrative following an early sexual experience with an adult. Using narrative inquiry methodology, 22 in-depth interviews were conducted in New South Wales, Australia, with 13 women and 9 men ages between 25 and 70. All participants had an early sexual experience at the age of 15 or younger with someone 18 or older. Narrative analysis was used to examine the co-constructed stories that emerged. Participants told four evolving narratives about their experiences: narratives of silence, of ongoing suffering, of transformation, and of transcendence. The gender differences between these narratives have been examined in the light of the literature relating to childhood sexual abuse, the victim and survivor discourses, and the social construction of gender.

Family Values, Religiosity, and Gender

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Jensen ◽  
Janet Jensen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Traditional Female Role

This study investigated differences between men and women on perceptions of materialism, the importance of the family, and the traditional female role. It was hypothesized that highly religious women and men would respond in a similar manner with a lower value placed on materialism and higher values on importance to the family and traditional female roles. A questionnaire was administered to over 4,000 Protestant, Catholic, and LDS college students. Highly religious groups from each denomination endorsed less materialistic views and supported a more traditional female role; gender differences were greater in the group low on religiosity on the value of the family.

Motivations for Psychological Aggression Among Dating College Students

Partner Abuse ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoAnna Elmquist ◽  
John Hamel ◽  
Jeniimarie Febres ◽  
Heather Zapor ◽  
Caitlin Wolford-Clevenger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Psychological Aggression ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
Dating Couples

There is a growing impetus within the field of aggression research to further elucidate the risk factors, predictors, and correlates of dating violence (DV), particularly among dating couples. Of particular importance is understanding the proximal motivations, or reasons, for DV and whether these motivations differ for men and women. Research examining the motivations for DV has focused almost entirely on physical violence, and findings regarding gender differences in DV motivations have been mixed (Langhinrichsen-Rohling, McCullars, & Misra, 2012). To our knowledge, limited research has examined the motivations for psychological aggression among dating college students, and no research has directly compared men and women’s motivations for psychological aggression. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the motivations for psychological aggression among dating college students (N = 216), and whether these motivations differed by gender. Results demonstrated that expression of negative emotions, jealousy, and communication difficulties were the most frequently endorsed motive categories for both men and women. Men and women did not differ on any motive category. Despite the preliminary nature of this study, several research and clinical implications are addressed.

Alcoholism and Gender: Patterns of Diagnosis and Response

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Course Of Illness ◽  
Recovering Alcoholics ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Gender Patterns ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Depth Interviews

Through in-depth interviews with 10(ten) male and 10(ten) female self-identified recovering alcoholics, this study examines the gender-related differences in pathways to alcoholism diagnosis and treatment. Respondents' stories suggest that while denial of the diagnosis delays appropriate treatment for both men and women, gender-related differences in the nature of the denial systems, such as who makes the diagnosis, who responds to it and how, keep women from such treatment more often than men. This applies irrespective of other gender differences in actual drinking behavior or rationale, symptoms (including psychopathology), time of onset or course of illness.

Sex-based Expectations: What College Students Think of Men and Women

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Caskey ◽  
Kelly B. Farr ◽  
Kathryn A. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Men And Women

Gender differences in airway obstruction in men and women with acromegaly: A longitudinal study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvère Störmann ◽  
Katharina Schilbach ◽  
Felix Amereller ◽  
Angstwurm Matthias W ◽  
Jochen Schopohl
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Airway Obstruction ◽  
Men And Women

Empathy as moderator of gender differences in Chinese insurance agents' business ethical sensitivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1029-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Zhang ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Jing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Ethical Sensitivity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Insurance Agents ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

To expand the business ethics research field, and to increase society's understanding of Chinese insurance agents' business ethics, we investigated how gender differences are related to agents' business ethical sensitivity and whether or not these relationships are moderated by empathy. Through a regression analysis of the factors associated with the business ethical sensitivity of 417 Chinese insurance agents, we found that gender played an important role in affecting business ethical sensitivity, and empathy significantly affected business ethical sensitivity. Furthermore, empathy had a moderating effect on the relationship between gender and business ethical sensitivity. Both men and women with strong empathy scored high on business ethical sensitivity; however, men with strong empathy had higher levels of business ethical sensitivity than did women with little empathy. The findings add to the literature by providing insight into the mechanisms responsible for the benefits of empathy in increasing business ethical sensitivity.

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