OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sex Roles is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Feminist Beliefs, Not Gender Equality Primes, Shape Self-Reported Partner Preferences	77
Author Correction: “I Think Most of Society Hates Us”: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Incels	61
Mind the Gap: Gender, Racial, and Educational Differences in American Gender Attitudes from 1977 to 2018	38
Associations Between Women’s and Men’s Conformity to Gender Norms and Bystander Intervention to Disrupt Sexual Assault	37
The Gendered Resource Dilution: Sibling Structure, Parental Non-Monetary Investment, and Child Housework Labor in China	34
Orgasm Frequency Predicts Desire and Expectation for Orgasm: Assessing the Orgasm Gap within Mixed-Sex Couples	32
“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	30
Unmarried Black Women’s Sexual Socialization: The Role of Dating, Motherhood, and Intimate Partner Violence Across Media Types	28
“Even Here”: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Gender Bias Incidents at a Selective Liberal Arts College	27
“Sport Belongs to Everyone… But Not During Pregnancy”: Views of Finnish Sport Stakeholders on Pregnancy in Sport	26
Benevolent Sexism in the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP): A Case Study of Texas House Bill 2	25
Tech-Savvy Men and Caring Women: Middle School Students’ Gender Stereotypes Predict Interest in Tech-Education	24
Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood	23
Effectiveness of Interventions for Transgender Prejudice Reduction: A Meta-Analysis	22
Motor Skill Learning in Iranian Girls: Effects of a Relatively Long Induction of Gender Stereotypes	18
Development and Validation of the Ambivalent Homoprejudice Toward Lesbian Women at Work Scale	17
Gender, Self-Stereotyping, and Life Goals Predict Career Interest in Germany, Nigeria, and Turkey	17
Correction to: Children’s Evaluations of Gender Non-Conforming Peers	16
“It Wasn’t Meant for Gays”: Lesbian Women’s and Gay Men’s Reactions to the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory	16
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	15
Sociocultural Messages about Gender Dysphoria (Dis)Align with the Lived Experiences of Trans and Nonbinary Individuals: A Qualitative Study	15
Gender Confirmation Work, Rest, and Symbolic Boundaries in (Trans)Gender Support Groups	13
“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 Ignorance	13
Cloaked in Kindness: Bystander Responses to Witnessed Benevolent and Hostile Sexism	13

An Adapted Sociocultural Model of Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating Among Midlife Men	12
Masculinity and Muscle Dysmorphia in Mixed Gender Canadian Youth	12
Diverse Gender Identity Development: A Qualitative Synthesis and Development of a New Contemporary Framework	12
Achieving Equality or Persisting Inequality: Effects of Framing of Equality on Attitudes Toward Women and Gender Equality Through Identity Threat and Cognitive Unfreezing	12
Perceptions of Trans Dating and Romantic Partners: The Role of Gender and Transphobia	12
Masculinity and Condom Use: Using a Rejection Sensitivity Framework to Understand Women’s Condom Negotiation in Mixed-Gender Sexual Encounters	12
Correction to: An Adapted Sociocultural Model of Body Image Concerns and Disordered Eating among Midlife Men	11
Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China	11
Like Parent, like Child: General and Specific Associations Between Parents’ and Children’s Binary Gender Identity in a Gender Egalitarian Context	11
Transgender Knowledge Mediates U.S. Political Differences in Prejudice and Support for Trans-inclusive Policies	11
The Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Computer Science Faculty’s Turnover Intentions: The Role of Gender	10
Traditionally and Narrowly Defined: Gender Portrayals in Television Programming Targeting Babies and Toddlers	10
Gender Differences in the Work and Home Spheres for Teachers, and Longitudinal Associations with Depressive Symptoms in a Swedish Cohort	10
Career Identities and Gender-STEM Stereotypes: When and Why Implicit Gender-STEM Associations Emerge and How They Affect Women’s College Major Choice	10
Comparison, Competition, and Consumption: The 3Cs of Contemporary Motherhood in the Context of Children’s Education	10
Identifying Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Patterns and Co-occurrence of Post-Breakup Stalking Among South Korean Men	10
Assault Typologies of College Rape Victims: A Mixed Methods Investigation	10
The Contribution of Gender Equality to the Coexistence of Progressive Abortion and Sexual Orientation Laws	10
Collective Action on Behalf of Women: Testing the Conceptual Distinction Between Traditional Collective Action and Small Acts in College Women	10
Strong Hero or Violent Playboy? Portrayals of Masculinity in Children’s Animated Movies	9
Explaining Societal Shifts in Victim Blaming and Perpetrator Culpability for Sexual Violence: Evidence From the #MeToo Era	9
Identifying Pathways to the Incel Community and Where to Intervene: A Qualitative Study with Former Incels	9
Riot Like a Girl? Gender-Stereotypical Associations Boost Support for Feminist Online Campaigns	9
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	9
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	9
The Gendered Influence of Cross-Gender Friends on the Development of Adolescents’ Gender Role Attitudes	9
Male Victimhood Ideology Among Korean Men: Is It Economic Hardship or Perceived Status Decline?	9
“A Recipe for Disaster?”: Female-Breadwinner Relationships Threaten Heterosexual Scripts	9
Caring or Competent? Apparent Prioritization of Childcare Over Work Affects Evaluations and Stereotyping of Fathers	8
Correction to: Raising Resilient Black Women: A Study of Superwoman Mothering and Strength as a Form of Gendered Racial Socialization in Black Mother-Daughter Relationships	8
The “Princess Syndrome”: An Examination of Gender Harassment on a Male-Majority University Campus	8
Too Tired to Lean In? Sleep Quality Impacts Women’s Daily Intentions to Pursue Workplace Status	8
My Body, My Choice? Examining the Distinct Profiles Underlying Attitudes Toward Abortion and COVID-19 Mandates	8
Beyond the Barbell: Women in Strength-Based Sports and the Reshaping of Gender Norms	8
Changes in Sexual, Romantic, and Gender Identities Across the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study	8
Fiber Arts Require Spatial Skills: How a Stereotypically Feminine Practice Can Help Us Understand Spatial Skills and Improve Spatial Learning	8
“When It Fits Wrong, I’m So Self-Conscious I Want to Die!”: Women’s Experiences Wearing Plus-Size Exercise Clothing	8
Spatial Skills and Self-Perceived Masculinity: Considering College Major STEM-ness, Directionality, and Gender	7
Perceptions of Parental Responses to Gender Stereotype Violations in Children	7
The Unbearable Weight of Gender Inequalities: Development and Validation of the Social Treatment and Experiences of Women (STEW) Scale	7
Do Images Speak Louder Than Words? Effects of Body Positive and Fitspiration Quotes and Images on State Body Image in Women and Men	7
The Sex-Based Harassment Inventory: A Gender Status Threat Measure of Sex-Based Harassment Intentions	7
Do Virtual Environments Close the Gender Gap in Participation in Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences? In Search of Moderation by Conference Format	7
The Sexual Objectification Experiences of Non-Binary People: Embodied Impacts and Acts of Resistance	7
Unmasking Street Harassment in Spain: Prevalence, Psychological Impact, and the Role of Sexism in Women’s Experiences	7
Workplace Experiences of Muslim Women in STEM in Canada: An Intersectional Qualitative Analysis	7
Implicit and Explicit Sexist Attitudes Towards Women Drivers	7
Navigating Abortion Stigma: Abortion Identity Centrality, Stigma Management Strategies, and Psychological Outcomes	7
Nonverbal Gendered Cues as Accurate Signals of Sexual Orientation	7
People Overestimate Backlash Against Helpers Who Violate Gender Stereotypes: Experimental Examination of a Prosociality Paradox	7

Women’s Engagement in Political Discussion on Twitter: The Role of Gender Salience, Resources, and Race/Ethnicity	6
Revealing Gender Double Standards in the Parenthood Norm Depends on Question Order	6
Punishing Women for Miscarriage: The role of Political Orientation and Hostile Sexism	6
Mean Girls in Disguise? Associations Between Vulnerable Narcissism and Perpetration of Bullying Among Women	6
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age: Risk, Temporality, and the Preservation of Stratified Reproduction	6
Flourishing in a Binary World: The Creation of Transgender Alternative Narratives	6
Instrumentality Gives Girls the Edge: Gender-Differential Relations Between Instrumentality, Achievement Motivation, and Self-Esteem	6
Testing an Integrated Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Girls’ Body Shame: Considering the Role of Pubertal Development	6
Is Online Disinhibition Related to Cyberdating Abuse Perpetration through Moral Disengagement? The Moderating Role of Gender, Sexism, and Cybervictimization	6
Acknowledging that Men are Moral and Harmed by Gender Stereotypes Increases Men’s Willingness to Engage in Collective Action on Behalf of Women	5
Humorous Responses to Gender Injustice: The Contrasting Effects of Efficacy and Emotions on Women’s Collective Action Intentions	5
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 Men	5
Macho or Nerd: Perceptions of Masculinity, Social Environment, and Science Capital Utilization Among Adolescent STEM Students	5
Feminism, Femininity, and Negative Embodiment: A Contemporary Meta-Analytic Test	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
Bisexual Women’s Meaning Making of Same-Sex Performativity: Orientation Towards a Heteropatriarchal Context	5
Blame of Rape Victims and Perpetrators in China: The Role of Gender, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Situational Factors	5
Cultural Beliefs About Manhood Predict Anti-LGBTQ+ Attitudes and Policies	5
Sexist Attitudes, Relationship Conflict and Satisfaction in Heterosexual Couples, and Men’s and Women’s Wellbeing	5
A Critical Review of Measures of Gender Equitable Attitudes: Recommendations for Conceptualization and Future Assessment	5
Doing and Redoing Emphasized Femininity: How Women Use Emotion Work to Manage Competing Expectations in College Hookup Culture	5
Gender Categorization and Stereotypes Beyond the Binary	5
Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology	5
“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	5
Is Marriage Associated With Decreases or Increases in Sexism?	5
Devaluation of Women’s Sexual Pleasure: Role of Relationship Context and Endorsement of the Madonna-Whore Dichotomy	5
Correction to: Strategic Masculine Disinvestment: Understanding Contemporary Transformations of Masculinity and Their Psychosocial Implications	5
Media Portrayals of Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Comparative Analysis of News Headlines Across Europe	5
A Qualitative Analysis of the Fertility Experience and Gender Identity in Young Women Following Hysterectomy for Benign Disease	5
Dangerous Motivations: Understanding How Marginalization Relates to Benevolent Sexism Through Threat Perceptions	5
Do Scales Measuring Sexist Attitudes have Equivalent Meaning for Sexual Minorities and Majorities?	5
Alcohol Use and Hostility Toward Women: Individual and Perceived Peer Attitudes Shape College Men's Consent Behavior	5
Picturing Sexual Agency: A Visual Content Analysis of Adults’ Sexual Stereotypes of Young Women	5
Same Place, Different Worlds: An Emergent Fit Analysis of the Experiences of Iranian Trans Women and Trans Men	5
Testing the Internal Consent Scale for Measurement Invariance Across Women and Men	5