Cartwright, Aoife and Hussey, Ian and Roche, Bryan and Dunne, Jenny and Muphy, Carol (2017) An Investigation into the Relationship between the Gender Binary and Occupational Discrimination Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure. The Psychological record, 67 (1). pp. 121-130. ISSN 0033-2933

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Abstract

The social construction of gender-as-binary plays an important role within many contemporary theories of gender inequality. However, to date, the field of psychology has struggled with the operationalization and assessment of binarist ideologies. The current article proposes a technical framework for the analysis of the gender binary and assesses the suitability of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a measure of binarist gender beliefs. Forty-seven undergraduate students (26 female; M age = 23.84) completed two IRAPs assessing the coordination of certain traits exclusively with women and others exclusively with men. Effects found on the IRAP were in the expected direction (i.e., relating men but not women with certain traits and women but not men with other traits). In addition, the traits ascribed to men within the IRAP were evaluated as more hirable by a large majority of participants (83%) on an explicit preference task. The results therefore support the arguments that, first, gender traits do seem to be framed oppositionally in language and, second, this binary may underpin existing gender hierarchies in certain contexts.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Gender binarism; Relational Frame Theory; gender discrimination; Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	11785
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-016-0212-1
Depositing User:	Dr. Bryan Roche
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2019 17:42
Journal or Publication Title:	The Psychological record
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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