Jodi McAlister is an expert in romance – and The Bachelor – in her day job. Her entertaining rom-com trilogy tells egalitarian stories of romance in the setting of a reality-TV dating show.
- Senior lecturer, School of Psychology, Deakin University
Terlepas kemajuan akan kesetaraan gender, beberapa perempuan masih lebih memilih peran gender tradisional dalam hubungan heteroseksual. Kami mencari tahu alasannya.
Despite greater gender equality, some women still prefer traditional gender roles in heterosexual relationships. We set out to discover why.
‘Benevolent sexism’ - opening doors for women, offering a hand - may seem harmless enough, even gentlemanly. But a growing body of evidence shows it can have harmful effects on women.
It can happen at work, on the street or at home – even by the people who love us. Everyday sexism might be hard to pin down, but it’s pervasive and creates an additional layer of stress for women.
In evolutionary terms, it’s better to be at the bottom of the hierarchy than to be dead – and that’s why submissive behaviours still persist in us humans. Even if we don’t like it.
The fact that women choose male partners who can dominate them does not mean that women want to be dominated.
Equal rights are not enough. Inequality exists in our minds, in our biases and prejudices, and that remains to be fixed.
Evolution has shaped gender differences, but we don’t have to be bound to this history. We are not mindless automata, doomed to slavishly oblige our instincts and impulses.
A pattern of male leadership and female passivity in heterosexual romance is woven into the formula on the popular TV show The Bachelor.
Whether gendered toys are creating stereotypes or just playing to boys’ and girls’ innate differences is a vexed question.
A new journal article has proposed that women changing their surname acts as a signal of fidelity to their husbands.
Pets inspire powerful emotions and strong attachments. They comfort the sick, console the lonely and entertain the children. We invite them into our families, pay their human-sized medical expenses and…
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