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- Title
GENDER ISSUES IN THE ITALIAN POLITICAL DOMAIN. ARE WOMAN/MAN MINISTERS EVALUATED AS DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF EFFECTIVENESS OF THEIR BEHAVIOR?
- Authors
SENSALES, GILDA; BALDNER, CONRAD; ARENI, ALESSANDRA
- Abstract
Although women have a growing representation in the Italian political sphere they are still often faced with sexism, borne out of feminine stereotypes, that is naturally not shared by their men colleagues in office. We investigated these stereotypes in the context of recent research on stereotypes toward women leaders. Researchers in this field have made two contrasting claims: (1) that women leaders are forced, to their detriment, between acting like either stereotypical women or stereotypical leaders, and (2) that women leaders are subject to stereotypes that largely do not overlap with stereotypes of women and leaders. We analyzed numeric and textual data on the perceived effectiveness of, and sexism toward, Italian man and woman ministers who were presented as being either gender stereotypic or counter-stereotypic. Our results were partially consistent with both claims and suggest a future in which Italian politicians will not be rigidly bound to gender stereotypes.
- Subjects
ITALY; GENDER stereotypes; WOMEN leaders; GENDER; WOMEN in politics; BEHAVIOR; GENDER role; REPRESENTATIVE government
- Publication
TPM: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
1972-6325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4473/TPM27.2.3