The Social Psychology of Gender

PART 1: GENDER DIFFERENCES AND SOCIALIZATION: WHY WOMEN AREN'T REALLY BORN TO SHOP AND MEN AREN'T BIOLOGICALLY DESTINED TO BELIEVE IN THE LAUNDRY FAIRY CHAPTER 1: Social Norms and Gender Differences CHAPTER 2: Differential Socialization CHAPTER 3: Androgynm CHAPTER 4: Concluding Remarks: Critiquing Biosocial Explanations for Gender Differences and Roles PART 2: RESEARCH ON GENDER DIFFERENCES: THE NOT-SO-OPPOSITE SEXES CHAPTER 5: Gender Differences: Smaller Than You Think CHAPTER 6: Meta-Analysis: An Important Tool For the Study of Gender Differences CHAPTER 7: Gender Differences in Mathematics CHAPTER 8: Emotional Empathy and Expressivity CHAPTER 9: Some Gender Differences Commonly Studied By Social Psychologists CHAPTER 10: Concluding Remarks PART 3: THE LIMITATIONS OF THE TRADITIONAL FEMALE GENDER ROLE CHAPTER 11: The Homemaker CHAPTER 12: Household Labor and the Employed Woman: Second Shifts & Leisure Gaps CHAPTER 13: The Male-Female Earnings Differential CHAPTER 14: The Low Power and Low Status of Women CHAPTER 15: Concluding Remarks: The Benefits of Paid Work for Women PART 4: THE LIMITATIONS OF THE TRADITIONAL MALE ROLE CHAPTER 16: Why It's Important to Study the Male Role CHAPTER 17: The Male Gender Role CHAPTER 18: Male Gender-Role Strain, Gender Role Stress, and Gender Role Conflict CHAPTER 19: Concluding Remarks PART 5: GENDER AS A SOCIAL CATEGORY: GENDER DIFFERENCES AND ERRORS IN THINKING CHAPTER 20: Social Cognition CHAPTER 21: The Social Cognition of Gender CHAPTER 22: Gender Categorization and Gender Ingroup Bias CHAPTER 23: Concluding Remarks PART 6: GENDER ACROSS CULTURES CHAPTER 24: Why a Cross-Cultural Study of Gender is Important CHAPTER 25: Pancultural Gender Similarities CHAPTER 26: Concluding Remarks PART 7: CHANGING GENDER ROLES CHAPTER 27: Changes in Attitudes CHAPTER 28: Changing the WorkplaceShawn M Burn is the author of 'The Social Psychology of Gender', published 1995 under ISBN 9780070091825 and ISBN 007009182X.