OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sex Roles is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Author Correction: “I Think Most of Society Hates Us”: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Incels	65
Sexual Orientation as Gendered to the Everyday Perceiver	53
Mind the Gap: Gender, Racial, and Educational Differences in American Gender Attitudes from 1977 to 2018	47
Workplace Experiences of Muslim Women in STEM in Canada: An Intersectional Qualitative Analysis	32
Postnatal Depression: The Role of “Good Mother” Ideals and Maternal Shame in a Community Sample of Mothers in Australia	28
Mothers’ Domestic Responsibilities and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Moderating Role of Gender Essentialist Beliefs About Parenthood	25
The Sex-Based Harassment Inventory: A Gender Status Threat Measure of Sex-Based Harassment Intentions	24
People Overestimate Backlash Against Helpers Who Violate Gender Stereotypes: Experimental Examination of a Prosociality Paradox	24
Hegemonic Masculinity and Mental Health Among Older White Men in the U.S.: The Role of Health and Wealth Decline	23
The Gendered Resource Dilution: Sibling Structure, Parental Non-Monetary Investment, and Child Housework Labor in China	21
Sex Wars and TERF Wars: The Divisiveness of Who is Included in Feminism	21
Punishing Women for Miscarriage: The role of Political Orientation and Hostile Sexism	19
“Sport Belongs to Everyone… But Not During Pregnancy”: Views of Finnish Sport Stakeholders on Pregnancy in Sport	19
Playing the Game Differently: How Women Leaders in Academia Are Challenging Neopatriarchy	18
“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 Australia	17
Correction to: 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 Sex	17
Flourishing in a Binary World: The Creation of Transgender Alternative Narratives	15
Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem	15
Correction to: Piecing Together Respectability: Black Women’s Reflections on Familial Socialization Messages	15
Gender-Typing of Children’s Sports Toys Persists: A Mixed-Methods Investigation	14
“You Did It to Yourself”: An Exploratory Study of Myths About Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse Among Men	14
Benevolent Sexism in the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP): A Case Study of Texas House Bill 2	13
Am I man Enough?: A Qualitative Study of African American Heterosexual Men’s Attitudes Toward Marriage	13
Underrepresented Rather than Misrepresented? A Content Analysis of Female Characters’ (non)Sexualization in Virtual Reality (VR) Games	13
Emphasizing the Communal Demands of a Leader Role Makes Job Interviews Less Stressful for Women But Not More Successful	12

Unmarried Black Women’s Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating, Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types	12
Trans Across Generations: Shifts in Narratives of Gender, Transphobic Violence, and Community Support	12
Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood	12
Nonverbal Gendered Cues as Accurate Signals of Sexual Orientation	12
Correction to: Implicit and Explicit Sexist Attitudes towards Women Drivers	11
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce: Examining Women’s Experiences and Variations by Race/Ethnicity	11
Asian American Women’s Racial Dating Preferences: An Investigation of Internalized Racism, Resistance and Empowerment against Racism, and Desire for Status	10
Who Gets Canceled for Sexual Assault?: The Roles of Likeability and Tactic on Perceived Perpetrator Accountability	10
A Longitudinal Study of Pubertal Timing and Tempo on Body Shame Among Young Adolescent Girls and Boys	10
Men’s Perception of Women’s Passive Sexual Responses Impacts Their Decision-Making During Simulated Hookups	10
Self-Defense as an Effective and Neglected Form of Sexual Assault Prevention: A Commentary and Overdue Correction to the Literature	9
Are Feminists Empowered Activists or Entitled Whiners? A Thematic Analysis of U.S. Adolescents’ Definitions of “Feminist” in a Diverse, Mixed-Gender Sample	9
Women’s Sexual Agency, Pleasure, and Orgasm in Popular Netflix Series: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Mixed-Gender Scenes	9
No Room of her Own: Married Couples’ Negotiation of Workspace at Home During COVID-19	9
Gender Differences in Children’s Reasoning About and Motivation to Pursue Leadership Roles	9
Women’s Engagement in Political Discussion on Twitter: The Role of Gender Salience, Resources, and Race/Ethnicity	9
Mother Like Mothers and Work Like Fathers: U.S. Heterosexual College Students’ Assumptions About Who Should Meet Childcare and Housework Demands	9
Predictors of Transgender Prejudice: A Meta-Analysis	8
Correction to: Motor Skill Learning in Iranian Girls: Effects of a Relatively Long Induction of Gender Stereotypes	8
Feminist Beliefs, Not Gender Equality Primes, Shape Self-Reported Partner Preferences	8
Do Images Speak Louder Than Words? Effects of Body Positive and Fitspiration Quotes and Images on State Body Image in Women and Men	8
Correction to: 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 Ability	8
Is Online Disinhibition Related to Cyberdating Abuse Perpetration through Moral Disengagement? The Moderating Role of Gender, Sexism, and Cybervictimization	7
Teaching College in the Time of COVID-19: Gender and Race Differences in Faculty Emotional Labor	7
Who Can Do STEM?: Children’s Gendered Beliefs about STEM and Non-STEM Competence and Learning	7
Engagement in Pro-Choice Protests: The Role of Gender, Feminism, Gender Collective Self-Esteem, and Reactance Against Abortion Bans	7
Harder Won and Easier Lost? Testing the Double Standard in Gender Rules in 62 Countries	7
Tech-Savvy Men and Caring Women: Middle School Students’ Gender Stereotypes Predict Interest in Tech-Education	7
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction	7
Orgasm Frequency Predicts Desire and Expectation for Orgasm: Assessing the Orgasm Gap within Mixed-Sex Couples	7
Revealing Gender Double Standards in the Parenthood Norm Depends on Question Order	7
Understanding Perceptions of Gender Non-Binary People: Consensual and Unique Stereotypes and Prejudice	7
Mean Girls in Disguise? Associations Between Vulnerable Narcissism and Perpetration of Bullying Among Women	7
Work-Family Conflicts and Perceived Fairness of Housework Division in Dual-Earner Couples During COVID-19	6
Less Equal, Less Satisfied? Gender Inequality Hampers Adults’ Subjective Well-Being via Gender-Role Attitudes	6
Exposure to Lived Representations of Abortion in Popular Television Program Plotlines on Abortion-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Support: An Exploratory Study	6
Testing an Integrated Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Girls’ Body Shame: Considering the Role of Pubertal Development	6
Reflections About What I Learned as an Editor Making Judgments about Gender and Gendered Contexts with a Feminist Perspective	6
Effectiveness of Interventions for Transgender Prejudice Reduction: A Meta-Analysis	6
Children’s Evaluations of Gender Non-Conforming Peers	6
The Allocation of Housework in Same- and Different-Sex Partnerships: Recent Evidence from the U.S	6
Strategic Masculine Disinvestment: Understanding Contemporary Transformations of Masculinity and Their Psychosocial Implications	6
Motor Skill Learning in Iranian Girls: Effects of a Relatively Long Induction of Gender Stereotypes	6
Feminism, Femininity, and Negative Embodiment: A Contemporary Meta-Analytic Test	6
PTSD and Complex PTSD Symptoms among Israeli Women Veterans: Role of Conformity to Masculine Norms and Coping Strategies	6
Parents’ Gender Role Attitudes and Child Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Parental Involvement	6
Women’s Intention to Apply to Top-Executive Positions: The Role of Gender Meta-Stereotypes in Job Ads	6
Alcohol Use and Hostility Toward Women: Individual and Perceived Peer Attitudes Shape College Men's Consent Behavior	6
Sexual Objectification in Family of Origin Scale: Development and Psychometric Evaluation	5
Effects of Gender-Fair Language on the Cognitive Representation of Women in Stereotypically Masculine Occupations and Occupational Self-Efficacy Among Primary School Girls and Boys	5

Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology	5
The Gender Similarities Hypothesis: Insights From A Multilevel Analysis of High-Stakes Examination Results in Mathematics	5
Correction to: Children’s Evaluations of Gender Non-Conforming Peers	5
Making Men of Steel: Superhero Exposure and the Development of Hegemonic Masculinity in Children	5
Gendered Impact of Caregiving Responsibilities on Tenure Track Faculty Parents’ Professional Lives	5
Blame of Rape Victims and Perpetrators in China: The Role of Gender, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Situational Factors	5
Protecting a Positive View of the Self: Female Gamers’ Strategic Self-Attribution of Stereotypes	5
“It Wasn’t Meant for Gays”: Lesbian Women’s and Gay Men’s Reactions to the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory	4
Picturing Sexual Agency: A Visual Content Analysis of Adults’ Sexual Stereotypes of Young Women	4
Comparisons of Health-Related Quality of Life among Users of Different Types of Menstrual Products: A Study of Taiwanese University Students	4
Bisexual Women’s Meaning Making of Same-Sex Performativity: Orientation Towards a Heteropatriarchal Context	4
Changes in Female Rape Myth Acceptance Among College Students: A 20-Year Perspective	4
Development and Validation of the Ambivalent Homoprejudice Toward Lesbian Women at Work Scale	4
Relating Profiles of Ethnocultural Gender Roles to Mental Health and Help-Seeking Attitudes among Latina Women	4
Sexual Socialization Experiences and Perceived Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Young African American Women	4
Parents’ Pre-Pandemic Benevolent Sexism Predicted Lower Parenting Strain and Psychological Distress During COVID-19 Lockdowns	4
Gender-Critical or Gender-Inclusive?: Radical Feminism is Associated with Positive Attitudes toward Trans* People and Their Rights	4
Sociocultural Messages about Gender Dysphoria (Dis)Align with the Lived Experiences of Trans and Nonbinary Individuals: A Qualitative Study	4
Is Emma or Liam the Top Scorer in Math? The Effects of a Counter-Stereotypical Role Model on Math Achievement	4
Penalized for Challenging Traditional Gender Roles: Why Heterosexual Relationships in Which Women Wear the Pants May Be More Precarious	4
Is Marriage Associated With Decreases or Increases in Sexism?	4
Status Markers in Popular Music Across Six Countries: A Content Analysis of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Genre, and Capital in Music Lyrics	4
Stereotypes About Who is Affected by Eating Disorders Disadvantage Risk Perception for Black Girls and Women	4
Correction to: Gender Differences in Children’s Reasoning About and Motivation to Pursue Leadership Roles	4
“They Want a Porn Star that Has Never Watched Porn”: Double Binds and Standards in Young Women’s Talk about Heterosex	4
The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well-Being as a Function of Country-Level Gender Equality	4
“It Literally Makes Me Feel Harder to Kill”: A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Benefits of Recreational Martial Arts Practice Among Women Sexual Assault Survivors	4
Correction to: Agency Penalties From Taking Parental Leave for Women in Men-Dominated Occupations: Archival and Experimental Evidence	4
Testing the Internal Consent Scale for Measurement Invariance Across Women and Men	4
Do I Say or Let it Go? Emotions Predict How People Respond to Receiving Sexual Objectification at Work	4
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor	4
Same Place, Different Worlds: An Emergent Fit Analysis of the Experiences of Iranian Trans Women and Trans Men	4