ANDROCENTRISM

• WHAT IS ANDROCENTRISM?

  research that proposes an interpretation of women based on an understanding of men's lives
• EVIDENCE OF ANDROCENTRISM IN PSYCHOLOGY?

  Freud's Psychodynamic Theory
• HOW DOES FREUD'S PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY SUFFER FROM ANDROCENTRISM?

  • girls have a weaker gender identity than boys
  • due to the lack of fear of castration
  • therefore they are not motivated to identify with same-sex parents
  • suggests women are psychologically weaker than men
• REAL WORLD APPLICATION OF GENDER BIAS?

  Duehr and Bono
• DUEHR AND BONO?

  between workers who exhibited equal levels of ineffective abilities, leaders were more likely to predict derailment from women than men
• WHAT IS DERAILMENT?

  a person in a high position failing at their job