GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL ABILITIES INFLUENCED BY GENDER STEREOTYPE

AbstractGender differences are often reported in spatial abilities, most of the times favouring men. Even during wayfinding, which requires planning and decision-making, such as choosing roads to take or shortcuts, men are in general better and faster than women. Although different interpretations have been proposed to explain men’s advantage in navigation, no study has explored the possibility that it could be due to men’s better travel planning ability. This latter has been recently identified as a distinct kind of planning that allows implementing an efficient navigational strategy in accordance with the environmental features. Therefore, the present study was aimed at investigating gender differences in travel planning ability. We compared men and women in performing the Key Search Task that requires to implement a strategy to search for a lost object in a wide imagined space. Results showed that men outperform women in both the overall performance and in some specific indexes of the total score. Men had a better travel planning ability with respect to women, outperforming women in configuring the planned strategy and choosing the best point to enter the imagined field. Therefore, men seem to plan the best navigational strategy and appear more cognitively flexible than women in adapting the strategy at the environmental features. The two genders did not differ in the time spent to solve the task. This finding suggests that differences in travel planning skills can contribute in explaining gender differences in wayfinding and spatial orientation.

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Diferencias de género en la comunicación de las y los “influencers”: el caso de los instagramers gastronómicos=Gender differences in influencer communication: the case of gastronomic instagramers

Cuestiones de género de la igualdad y la diferencia ◽

10.18002/cg.v0i16.6970 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 536

Author(s):

Laura Herrero Ruiz ◽

Marián Navarro-Beltrá

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Social Networks ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Gender Stereotype ◽

Quantitative Methodology ◽

Redes Sociales ◽

Men And Women ◽

Discursive Strategies

ResumenPese a la existencia de estudios que demuestran que hombres y mujeres utilizan estrategias discursivas diferentes, no se ha prestado atención al análisis de estas desemejanzas en las redes sociales. Así, se pretende analizar si se producen diferencias de género en la comunicación que se efectúa en Instagram y se examina el caso de los y las influencers gastronómicos. Se utiliza la metodología cuantitativa y se realiza un análisis de contenido de 339 publicaciones de Instagram llevadas a cabo por 10 influencers gastronómicos (5 mujeres y 5 hombres). Los principales resultados muestran que existe diferencia en la comunicación que hombres y mujeres realizan, suscitándose un estereotipo de género en el que son ellas las que toman más presencia.AbstractDespite the existence of studies that show that men and women use different discursive strategies, no attention has been paid to the analysis of these dissimilarities in social networks. Thus, it is intended to analyze whether there are gender differences in the communication that takes place on Instagram and examines the case of gastronomic influencers. The quantitative methodology is used and a content analysis of 339 Instagram posts made by 10 gastronomic influencers (5 women and 5 men) is carried out. The main results show that there is a difference in the communication that men and women carry out, giving rise to a gender stereotype in which they are the ones who take more presence.

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Exploring the Logic of Gender Complementarity using Chimakonam’s Ezumezu System

Filosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions ◽

10.4314/ft.v10i1.6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 87-102

Author(s):

Eric Ndoma Besong

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Gender Equality ◽

Gender Stereotype ◽

Men And Women ◽

Gender Binary ◽

Gender Complementarity ◽

Males And Females

In this essay, I want to argue that the existence of gender most times translated as gender binary, is a biological fact. What is at stake is a framework for transcending unequal gender binary to gender complementarity. Here, I propose to use Chimakonam’s Ezumezu logic as a mechanism for disclosing gender complementarity. The illogical, irrational and subjective perspectives on lopsided gender differences between men and women will be challenged in this essay. I will analyze the thrust of Ezumezu logic, its major principles, structures, and pillars of thought. I will also demonstrate its global and contextual relevance. I will submit that Ezumezu logic can ground gender complementarity across global cultures. I argue that regardless of the physical differences between males and females, it is illogical to exploit such differences to promote gender stereotype. Keywords: Gender equality, Ezumezu Logic, Gender Complementarity, Jonathan Chimakonam

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