Sex Roles

Papers
(The median citation count of Sex Roles is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mind the Gap: Gender, Racial, and Educational Differences in American Gender Attitudes from 1977 to 201867
Associations Between Women’s and Men’s Conformity to Gender Norms and Bystander Intervention to Disrupt Sexual Assault48
Author Correction: “I Think Most of Society Hates Us”: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Incels45
It’s Not Fine Online: Assessing the Emotional Consequences of Online Sexual Objectification and its Effect on Behaviour42
Feminist Beliefs, Not Gender Equality Primes, Shape Self-Reported Partner Preferences40
Tech-Savvy Men and Caring Women: Middle School Students’ Gender Stereotypes Predict Interest in Tech-Education37
The Gendered Resource Dilution: Sibling Structure, Parental Non-Monetary Investment, and Child Housework Labor in China29
Unmarried Black Women’s Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating, Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types28
“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 Australia28
“Even Here”: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Gender Bias Incidents at a Selective Liberal Arts College27
“Sport Belongs to Everyone… But Not During Pregnancy”: Views of Finnish Sport Stakeholders on Pregnancy in Sport26
Orgasm Frequency Predicts Desire and Expectation for Orgasm: Assessing the Orgasm Gap within Mixed-Sex Couples19
Development and Validation of the Ambivalent Homoprejudice Toward Lesbian Women at Work Scale18
Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood18
Correction to: Children’s Evaluations of Gender Non-Conforming Peers18
“It Wasn’t Meant for Gays”: Lesbian Women’s and Gay Men’s Reactions to the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory18
Gender, Self-Stereotyping, and Life Goals Predict Career Interest in Germany, Nigeria, and Turkey17
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality15
Sociocultural Messages about Gender Dysphoria (Dis)Align with the Lived Experiences of Trans and Nonbinary Individuals: A Qualitative Study15
Effectiveness of Interventions for Transgender Prejudice Reduction: A Meta-Analysis15
Gender Confirmation Work, Rest, and Symbolic Boundaries in (Trans)Gender Support Groups14
Exploratory Analysis of the Role of Transnormativity in the Association Between Gender Dysphoria and Psychological Distress14
Motor Skill Learning in Iranian Girls: Effects of a Relatively Long Induction of Gender Stereotypes14
Masculinity and Condom Use: Using a Rejection Sensitivity Framework to Understand Women’s Condom Negotiation in Mixed-Gender Sexual Encounters13
“A Fire in my Belly:” Conceptualizing U.S. Women’s Experiences of “Mom Rage”13
Men’s Help-Seeking Willingness and Disclosure of Depression: Experimental Evidence for the Role of Pluralistic Ignorance13
Diverse Gender Identity Development: A Qualitative Synthesis and Development of a New Contemporary Framework13
Achieving Equality or Persisting Inequality: Effects of Framing of Equality on Attitudes Toward Women and Gender Equality Through Identity Threat and Cognitive Unfreezing13
Perceptions of Trans Dating and Romantic Partners: The Role of Gender and Transphobia13
An Adapted Sociocultural Model of Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating Among Midlife Men13
Masculinity and Muscle Dysmorphia in Mixed Gender Canadian Youth12
Correction to: An Adapted Sociocultural Model of Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating among Midlife Men12
Vagina, Pussy, Vulva, Vag: Women's Names for Their Genitals are Differentially Associated with Sexual and Health Outcomes12
Cloaked in Kindness: Bystander Responses to Witnessed Benevolent and Hostile Sexism12
Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China12
Transgender Knowledge Mediates U.S. Political Differences in Prejudice and Support for Trans-inclusive Policies12
Like Parent, like Child: General and Specific Associations Between Parents’ and Children’s Binary Gender Identity in a Gender Egalitarian Context12
The Contribution of Gender Equality to the Coexistence of Progressive Abortion and Sexual Orientation Laws11
The Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Computer Science Faculty’s Turnover Intentions: The Role of Gender11
Identifying Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Patterns and Co-occurrence of Post-Breakup Stalking Among South Korean Men11
Comparison, Competition, and Consumption: The 3Cs of Contemporary Motherhood in the Context of Children’s Education11
Assault Typologies of College Rape Victims: A Mixed Methods Investigation11
The Gendered Influence of Cross-Gender Friends on the Development of Adolescents’ Gender Role Attitudes10
Career Identities and Gender-STEM Stereotypes: When and Why Implicit Gender-STEM Associations Emerge and How They Affect Women’s College Major Choice10
Cisgender Women Underestimate Support for the Inclusion of Transgender Women in the Group ‘Women’: An Investigation of Norm Misperceptions10
Male Victimhood Ideology Among Korean Men: Is It Economic Hardship or Perceived Status Decline?10
Traditionally and Narrowly Defined: Gender Portrayals in Television Programming Targeting Babies and Toddlers10
Riot Like a Girl? Gender-Stereotypical Associations Boost Support for Feminist Online Campaigns10
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 Sex10
Collective Action on Behalf of Women: Testing the Conceptual Distinction Between Traditional Collective Action and Small Acts in College Women10
Gender Differences in the Work and Home Spheres for Teachers, and Longitudinal Associations with Depressive Symptoms in a Swedish Cohort10
Caring or Competent? Apparent Prioritization of Childcare Over Work Affects Evaluations and Stereotyping of Fathers10
Correction to: Raising Resilient Black Women: A Study of Superwoman Mothering and Strength as a Form of Gendered Racial Socialization in Black Mother-Daughter Relationships9
Explaining Societal Shifts in Victim Blaming and Perpetrator Culpability for Sexual Violence: Evidence From the #MeToo Era9
Spatial Skills and Self-Perceived Masculinity: Considering College Major STEM-ness, Directionality, and Gender9
Identifying Pathways to the Incel Community and Where to Intervene: A Qualitative Study with Former Incels9
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 Ability9
“A Recipe for Disaster?”: Female-Breadwinner Relationships Threaten Heterosexual Scripts9
My Body, My Choice? Examining the Distinct Profiles Underlying Attitudes Toward Abortion and COVID-19 Mandates8
Do Virtual Environments Close the Gender Gap in Participation in Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences? In Search of Moderation by Conference Format8
Navigating Abortion Stigma: Abortion Identity Centrality, Stigma Management Strategies, and Psychological Outcomes8
Unmasking Street Harassment in Spain: Prevalence, Psychological Impact, and the Role of Sexism in Women’s Experiences8
Implicit and Explicit Sexist Attitudes Towards Women Drivers8
Changes in Sexual, Romantic, and Gender Identities Across the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study8
Too Tired to Lean In? Sleep Quality Impacts Women’s Daily Intentions to Pursue Workplace Status8
The Unbearable Weight of Gender Inequalities: Development and Validation of the Social Treatment and Experiences of Women (STEW) Scale8
The Sexual Objectification Experiences of Non-Binary People: Embodied Impacts and Acts of Resistance8
“When It Fits Wrong, I’m So Self-Conscious I Want to Die!”: Women’s Experiences Wearing Plus-Size Exercise Clothing8
Revealing Gender Double Standards in the Parenthood Norm Depends on Question Order7
Is Online Disinhibition Related to Cyberdating Abuse Perpetration through Moral Disengagement? The Moderating Role of Gender, Sexism, and Cybervictimization7
Beyond the Barbell: Women in Strength-Based Sports and the Reshaping of Gender Norms7
Women’s Engagement in Political Discussion on Twitter: The Role of Gender Salience, Resources, and Race/Ethnicity7
Perceptions of Parental Responses to Gender Stereotype Violations in Children7
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction7
People Overestimate Backlash Against Helpers Who Violate Gender Stereotypes: Experimental Examination of a Prosociality Paradox7
Fiber Arts Require Spatial Skills: How a Stereotypically Feminine Practice Can Help Us Understand Spatial Skills and Improve Spatial Learning7
Workplace Experiences of Muslim Women in STEM in Canada: An Intersectional Qualitative Analysis7
Nonverbal Gendered Cues as Accurate Signals of Sexual Orientation7
Testing an Integrated Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Girls’ Body Shame: Considering the Role of Pubertal Development7
Flourishing in a Binary World: The Creation of Transgender Alternative Narratives7
The Sex-Based Harassment Inventory: A Gender Status Threat Measure of Sex-Based Harassment Intentions7
Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem6
Alcohol Use and Hostility Toward Women: Individual and Perceived Peer Attitudes Shape College Men's Consent Behavior6
Picturing Sexual Agency: A Visual Content Analysis of Adults’ Sexual Stereotypes of Young Women6
Macho or Nerd: Perceptions of Masculinity, Social Environment, and Science Capital Utilization Among Adolescent STEM Students6
Gender Categorization and Stereotypes Beyond the Binary6
Same Place, Different Worlds: An Emergent Fit Analysis of the Experiences of Iranian Trans Women and Trans Men6
Punishing Women for Miscarriage: The role of Political Orientation and Hostile Sexism6
Is Marriage Associated With Decreases or Increases in Sexism?6
Recognizing Gender Harassment in the Workplace: A Qualitative Analysis6
“It Literally Makes Me Feel Harder to Kill”: A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Benefits of Recreational Martial Arts Practice Among Women Sexual Assault Survivors6
Understanding Occupational Gender Segregation Through Students’ Program Choices and Career Interests6
Mean Girls in Disguise? Associations Between Vulnerable Narcissism and Perpetration of Bullying Among Women6
Do Images Speak Louder Than Words? Effects of Body Positive and Fitspiration Quotes and Images on State Body Image in Women and Men6
Bisexual Women’s Meaning Making of Same-Sex Performativity: Orientation Towards a Heteropatriarchal Context6
Feminism, Femininity, and Negative Embodiment: A Contemporary Meta-Analytic Test6
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Investigating Adolescent Body Hair Attitudes, Satisfaction, and Removal Practices6
Blame of Rape Victims and Perpetrators in China: The Role of Gender, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Situational Factors6
Testing the Internal Consent Scale for Measurement Invariance Across Women and Men6
Standing Up to Sexism: Does Challenging Sexist Comments Have Transformational Benefits in How Women Value Themselves and Other Women?5
Women Experience More Intimate Partner Violence than Men over the Life Course: Evidence for Gender Asymmetry at all Ages in a National Sample5
Outperformance-Related Discomfort: Another Factor in Women’s Under-Representation in STEM?5
Fleshing Out the Ways Masculinity Threat and Traditional Masculinity Ideology Relate to Meat-Eating and Environmental Attitudes in Australian Men5
Doing and Redoing Emphasized Femininity: How Women Use Emotion Work to Manage Competing Expectations in College Hookup Culture5
Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology5
Gendered Social Media Content Among Adolescent Boys and Girls: Findings From a Data Donation Linkage Study on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat5
Some Gender Stereotypes Persist in Filipino TV Ads: A Content Analytic Investigation of TV Advertising in 2010 and 20205
“A Woman, With No Evidence, Can Send Any Man to Jail Whenever She Wants”: Men’s Rights Activists’ Digital Narratives of a Culture of False Rape Allegations5
Shifting Standards of Sexuality: An Intersectional Account of Men’s Objectification of Black and White Women5
Prevalence and Motivations for Technology-facilitated Gender- and Sexuality-based Violence Among Adults: A Mixed-methods Study5
A Critical Review of Measures of Gender Equitable Attitudes: Recommendations for Conceptualization and Future Assessment5
Acknowledging that Men are Moral and Harmed by Gender Stereotypes Increases Men’s Willingness to Engage in Collective Action on Behalf of Women5
Humorous Responses to Gender Injustice: The Contrasting Effects of Efficacy and Emotions on Women’s Collective Action Intentions5
A Qualitative Analysis of the Fertility Experience and Gender Identity in Young Women Following Hysterectomy for Benign Disease5
Effects of Gender-Fair Language on the Cognitive Representation of Women in Stereotypically Masculine Occupations and Occupational Self-Efficacy Among Primary School Girls and Boys5
Media Portrayals of Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Comparative Analysis of News Headlines Across Europe5
Appearance Satisfaction Among Adolescent Girls in Australia, China, India, and Iran: The Role of Perceived Actual-Ideal Discrepancies in Facial and Bodily Attributes5
Gender Stereotypes and Peer Selection in STEM Domains Among Children and Adolescents5
Context Matters: Differential Gendering of Physics in Arabic-speaking, Hebrew-speaking, and Single-Sex State Schools in Israel5
Thank You for Sharing: Body-Positive and Humour Parody Images Increase Women’s Body Satisfaction and Predict Collective Action Intentions Via Gratitude5
Cultural Beliefs About Manhood Predict Anti-LGBTQ+ Attitudes and Policies5
Dangerous Motivations: Understanding How Marginalization Relates to Benevolent Sexism Through Threat Perceptions5
Devaluation of Women’s Sexual Pleasure: Role of Relationship Context and Endorsement of the Madonna-Whore Dichotomy5
Sexist Attitudes, Relationship Conflict and Satisfaction in Heterosexual Couples, and Men’s and Women’s Wellbeing5
Correction to: Strategic Masculine Disinvestment: Understanding Contemporary Transformations of Masculinity and Their Psychosocial Implications5
Effects of Minority Stress on Group Identification and Collective Action among Sexual Minorities: A Longitudinal Test of the Rejection-Identification Model5
Women’s Well-Being Post-Partum: The Role of Self-Objectification and Self-Compassion5
Masculinity Matters for Meat Consumption: An Examination of Self-Rated Gender Typicality, Meat Consumption, and Veg*nism in Australian Men and Women5
Mother’s Instinct? Biological Essentialism and Parents’ Involvement in Work and Childcare4
Protecting a Positive View of the Self: Female Gamers’ Strategic Self-Attribution of Stereotypes4
Dashed Expectations and Unmet Desires of Belgian and German First-Time Fathers Regarding Their Engagement in Breadwinning and Childcare4
Gay and Straight Men Prefer Masculine-Presenting Gay Men for a High-Status Role: Evidence From an Ecologically Valid Experiment4
Attitudes of U.S. Adults Towards Coercive Control as a Function of Victim and Perpetrator Gender and Respondent Sexual Orientation4
Understanding Perceptions of Radical and Liberal Feminists: The Nuanced Roles of Warmth and Competence4
Women’s Humility and Men’s Lack of Hubris: Gender Biases in Self-Estimated Spatial Intelligence4
Making Men of Steel: Superhero Exposure and the Development of Hegemonic Masculinity in Children4
Young Men’s Perspectives on Menstruation in New York City: A Qualitative Assessment4
An Intersectional Analysis of Women's Experiences of Inclusion in the United States Army4
“I can't push off my own Mental Health”: Chilly STEM Climates, Mental Health, and STEM Persistence among Black, Latina, and White Graduate Women4
Depictions of Gender Across Eight Decades of Disney Animated Film: The Role of Film Producer, Director, and Writer Gender4
Brilliance Beliefs, Not Mindsets, Explain Inverse Gender Gaps in Psychology and Philosophy4
Recent Increases in Vegetarianism may be Limited to Women: A 15-Year Study of Young Adults at an American University4
Predictors of Transgender Prejudice: A Meta-Analysis4
Strategic Masculine Disinvestment: Understanding Contemporary Transformations of Masculinity and Their Psychosocial Implications4
Beliefs About the Origins and Achievement of Gender Equality: A Qualitative Inquiry Among Adolescents Attending Elite Single-Sex Schools4
Engagement in Pro-Choice Protests: The Role of Gender, Feminism, Gender Collective Self-Esteem, and Reactance Against Abortion Bans4
Maternal Employment Shapes Daughters’ Employment Stability in Egypt: Evidence for the Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Force Attachment4
Benevolent and Hostile Sexism in Endorsement of Heterosexist Marriage Traditions Among Adolescents and Adults4
Evaluation of Women in Economics: Evidence of Gender Bias Following Behavioral Role Violations4
Sexual Harassment and Assault in Public Spaces: Individual Vulnerability and Contextual Risk Factors4
Sex Wars and TERF Wars: The Divisiveness of Who is Included in Feminism4
Gendered Mental Labor: A Systematic Literature Review on the Cognitive Dimension of Unpaid Work Within the Household and Childcare3
Who Are ‘They’? Gender-Neutral Pronoun Adoption by Non-Binary People and Other Gender Groups3
Dropout Intentions of Soldiers in Mixed-Gender Combat Units: A Longitudinal Examination of the Integration Process3
Correction to: Engagement in Pro-Choice Protests: The Role of Gender, Feminism, Gender Collective Self-Esteem, and Reactance Against Abortion Bans3
Mr. Active and Little Miss Passive? The Transmission and Existence of Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Books3
Married Mixed-gender Couples’ Midlife Employment and Later Life Well-being and Housework3
It’s on Victims: A Critical Discourse Analysis of U.S. College Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Strategies3
Gendered Failures and Achievements in Women’s Experiences of Men’s Orgasms3
Sexual Assault of a Rohingya Woman: Anti-Rohingya Statements Embolden Those High in Sexism to Report Anti-Victim and Pro-Perpetrator Reactions3
Conditional Parochial Vicarious Ostracism: Gender Collective Narcissism Predicts Distress at the Exclusion of the Gender Ingroup in Women and Men3
Coaching Support in Gender-Sensitive Training: A Study on the Coping Mechanisms of Female Athletes’ Menstrual Cycles3
How Familism and Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Shape Attitudes Toward Legal Abortion Among Latinx and non-Latinx Adults in the United States3
Beyond Yes and No: Discursive Constructions of Grey Area and Sexual Boundaries in Women’s Lives in Slovakia3
Traditional Masculinity Ideology and Feminist Attitudes: The Role of Identity Foreclosure3
Cover Up That “Baby Bump”: Displaying the Pregnant Body Undermines Women’s Perceived Humanness3
Think Manager-Think Male Re-Examined: Race as a Moderator3
Gender Inequality Lowers Educational Aspiration for Adolescent Boys and Girls: A Multi-Level and Longitudinal Study in China3
Kinkeeping Across Families: The Central Role of Mothers and Stepmothers in the Facilitation of Adult Intergenerational Ties3
Raising Resilient Black Women: A Study of Superwoman Mothering and Strength as a Form of Gendered Racial Socialization in Black Mother-Daughter Relationships3
Ideological Beliefs and Internalized Beauty Ideals as Predictors of Aesthetic Labor Among Chinese Feminists3
Nuanced Longitudinal Effects of Domains of Perceived Gender Similarity on Adolescent Peer Victimization3
Are Gender Differences in Vocational Interests Universal?: Moderating Effects of Cultural Dimensions3
Hostile and Benevolent Sexism and Attitudes Toward Establishing Consent Among Chinese Men: The Detrimental Role of Token Resistance Beliefs and Binge Drinking3
The Role of Honor Concerns in Disclosing (vs. Hiding) COVID-19 Diagnosis: Insights from Türkiye3
Numbers for Boys and Words for Girls? Academic Gender Stereotypes among Chinese Parents3
Socialization of Gender Public Regard: Family Conversations, Practices and Routines3
Ethical Sexual Regret in Men: A Discourse Analysis3
Gender Bias in the Perception of Others’ Fatigue: Women Report More Fatigue Than Men But Have Their Fatigue Underestimated by Others3
Students’ Perceptions of Guilt, Responsibility, and Just Punishment When Accounts of Campus Sexual Assault Conflict3
Exposure to Feminist Humor and the Proclivity to Collective Action for Gender Equality: The Role of Message Format and Feminist Identification3
Gendered Impact of Caregiving Responsibilities on Tenure Track Faculty Parents’ Professional Lives3
Systemic Powers, Institutionalized Thinking and Situated Knowledge: A Qualitative Exploration on the Meanings of ‘Menstruation’ and ‘Menstrual Health’ in Spain3
Narratives of Children’s Gender Socialization from Fathers Who Take Parental Leave in South Korea3
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