Transcription of The Gender Similarities Hypothesis
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The Gender Similarities Hypothesis Janet Shibley Hyde University of Wisconsin Madison The differences model, which argues that males and fe- searchers highlighted Gender Similarities . Thorndike males are vastly different psychologically, dominates the (1914), for example, believed that psychological Gender popular media. Here, the author advances a very different differences were too small, compared with within- Gender view, the Gender Similarities Hypothesis , which holds that variation, to be important. Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1918). males and females are similar on most, but not all, psy- reviewed available research on Gender differences in men- chological variables. Results from a review of 46 meta- tal traits and found little evidence of Gender differences. analyses support the Gender Similarities Hypothesis . Gen- Another important reviewer of Gender research in the early der differences can vary substantially in magnitude at 1900s, Helen Thompson Woolley (1914), lamented the gap different ages and depend on the context in which mea- between the data and scientists' views on the question: surement occurs.
chological variables. Results from a review of 46 meta-analyses support the gender similarities hypothesis. Gen-der differences can vary substantially in magnitude at different ages and depend on the context in which mea-surement occurs. Overinflated claims of gender differences carry substantial costs in areas such as the workplace and ...
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