gender a03

• • greater understanding = solutions.
  •  some psychologists develop theories that emphasise the importance or value of women- Cornwell females better at learning, (attentive and organised), value positive attributes of women. 
  • research reduce/challenge gender stereotypes, important in reducing gender bias.
  • Another way to reduce= feminist approach to restore the imbalance in theories and research.
  •  feminist psychology accepts biological differences eg.Eagly (1978) claims females are less effective leaders- purpose develop training programmes aimed at reducing the lack of female leaders.
• • gender bias can work against males as well as females,
  • women are more likely to be diagnosed with depression and given treatment ,woman are more likely to suffer from depression? or diagnostic system may be biased scales used to rate the severity of depression often leave off questions that depressed men, not women, might answer positively.
  • . The expectation for males should be able to ‘pull themselves together’ = masculine trait - issue with the psychological diagnostic systems.
  • Gender bias influence recognize in men, how supportive , and how we treat men
• • Some people have suggested problems with beta bias may lie with the research methods
  • Rosenthal found male experiementers are more pleasent and friendly with women participants with the results being men performing less well on tasks assigned.
  • Furthermore feminists aregue controlled lab settings tell us little about experience of women outside,
  • Eagly and Johnson found that men and women were jusdged more similarly in styles of leadership outside
  • way data is collected creates a false picture of male female differences.