Magnitude of psychological gender differences. Another side to the story.
A. H. Eagly (1995) argued that feminism created a political climate that has lead to research that inaccurately minimizes psychological gender differences. In this article, the authors assert that feminist psychologists do not have a uniform position on this issue, and that many have argued for large gender differences. Meta-analyses indicate great variability in the magnitude of gender differences across different behaviors. However, more psychological gender differences (25%) fall in the close-to-zero range than do other effects in psychology (6%).
Hyde
J S
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Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706.
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D001076:Aptitude; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014933:Women's Rights