The Relationship Between Knowing Gender Roles As Inflexible And Defense Of Gender Discrimination In Men And Women

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This study aimed to test the hypothesis that men who know gender roles as inflexible (compared to men who know gender roles as flexible), defend more of the discrimination that exists between women and men in society, but in women there is not such a relationship between knowing gender roles as inflexible and defending gender discriminations. In a descriptive-correlational design, 122 of undergraduate students of Islamic Azad University-BuinZahra Branch (3900 = N) were randomly sampled and responded to Perceived Immutability of Gender Roles scale and Gender Discrimination Advocacy scale. Pearson correlation coefficients showed that in men, knowing gender roles as inflexible has significant relationship with defending gender discriminations (p < 0/001) but this relationship was not significant in women (p < 0/201). The explanation for this pattern of results is that the discriminatory society has given a higher status to men than women.

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  • Receive Date: 22 April 2017
  • Revise Date: 30 June 2018
  • Accept Date: 24 June 2017

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