Webinar on the Gender-Equality Paradox
The Gender-Equality Paradox is the finding that gender differences in various psychological traits, preferences, and social behaviors—not least connected with the gender gap in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics-related occupations—are larger in countries that score higher on various measures of gender equality.
. While empirical evidence of this cross-cultural variation can be found in abundance, there are ongoing debates concerning the nature of causality, measurement, and wider theoretical implications.
This webinar is intended to provide a broad overview of current research and theory development, and to foster dialogue between different disciplines and perspectives. It will cover the Gender-Equality Paradox in a broad sense, with several short presentations from scholars who engage with different aspects related to the topic (see below).
The event will take place online, January 19, 2023, 14.00—16.30 CET, and is organized by the Department of Sociology, Umeå University, together with the Comparative Research Center Sweden and the Swedish Association for Gender Research.
Warmly welcome!
Mikael Goossen & Filip Fors Connolly
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Speakers/Contributors
Anu Realo
Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Arij Yehya
PhD student at the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Sarah S. Richardson
Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University
Gijsbert Stoet
Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Essex
Mathias Berggren
PhD student at the Department of Psychology, Uppsala University
Petri Kajonius
Personality researcher at the Department of Psychology, Lund University
Anton Andersson
Personality researcher at the department of psychology, Lund University
Guy Madison
Professor at the Department of Psychology, Umeå University
Charlotta Stern
Professor at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
Presentations
| Speakers | Title |
Mikael Goossen / Filip Fors Connolly
| Introduction |
Gijsbert Stoet
| The surprising total failure of social role models to explain the gender equality paradox in occupational interest |
Sarah S. Richardson
| Just So’ Stories About Women In STEM |
Anton Andersson / Petri Kajonius
| Gender-Equality Paradox and Mahalanobis Multidimensional differences |
Arij Yehya / Anu Realo
| Within-country variation in men’s and women’s personality traits as a function of economic development: Evidence from Germany, Russia, and the United States |
Guy Madison / Charlotta Stern | The sexual paradox implies psychological trait differences – methods for separating biological and social sources of sex differences, and what they say. |
Mathias Berggren
| Gender Equality, Cultural Distance, and Data quality: A re-examination of the Gender-Equality Paradox |