The Relationship Between Gender Roles And Governmental...

Connection between Gender Roles and Governmental Opportunities Frida Pineda South Texas College Abstract This paper shares six articles chosen at random over studies made of gender roles and governmental elections. Although not every article provides the same idea or belief, most of them do. Therefore if there is an opposite argument, you are going to able to see why and at the end, we found ideas as to why they do not agree with us. And even when there is not an official response of gender being a problem, we can speculate that it’s true, gender roles are a big part in government. Introduction Nowadays we live in a society where social issues are a big thing, which is one of the main reasons as to why there’s not as much†¦show more content†¦Literature Review This first article by Shirley Rosenwasser and Norma Dean shows the underrepresentation of women, it is shown by two studies made to college students. In Study 1, the â€Å"masculinity/femininity† of governmental office held positions were analyzed and rated as how â€Å"feminine† or â€Å"masculine† they were. One hundred thirty-three college students were recruited from introductory psychology classes at Southwest Texas State University (Rosenwasser Dean, 1989). Participants were asked to describe how distinguished they thought each office was, as well as the rate of importance of each holding office. In Study 2, thirty-nine men and eighty-three women were recruited again from the same class (Rosenwasser Dean, 1989). However, now they were asked to read one of the four descriptions of a hypothetical candidate, and they had to base their answers on the hypothetical example. After, they needed to evaluate the candidates to show their level of efficacy. Esti mating the chances of someone winning the election was the next step. And finally, participants rated the importance of each presidential task. There was a discussion following the studies, Study 1 showed that â€Å"masculine† descriptors were far more important than â€Å"feminine† descriptors. And Study 2 showing, that although, women and â€Å"feminine† candidates were rated more competent in feminine tasks as well as men with â€Å"masculine† tasks, students still rated â€Å"masculine† tasks more