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Gender Stereotypes And Relationship Equity And Satisfaction, Justin Newsome

Student Research Posters

• Gender stereotypes divide men and women along biological, emotional, and cognitive lines. This social construct can be summed up by the phrase “men are from Mars, women are from Venus.”
• The sex of a person is the biological category of male or female and gender is the social aspect of being male or female (Robinson et al., 2001).
• Social constructs thatpromote gender stereotypes can have an impact on the suppression of biological responses (Brody, 1997). This thinking influences behaviorin men and women that is self-fulfilling to gender stereotypes (Baez et al., 2017).
• This may have an effect on how men …