Gender_PilotScale1

Read each statement and decide whether you agree with it or not. There are no right or wrong answers as I am interested in your opinions or attitudes. All statements use the same rating scale.

1. The characteristics of most people are basically either masculine or feminine, and there is really little they can do to change that. *

2. Men commit the majority of violent crimes in most countries because male role models are typically aggressive and violent. *

3. Gender differences in behavior are not learned, nor are they influenced by early childhood experiences. *

4. Differences in how well men and women read maps or give directions are largely due to innate or inborn sex differences. *

5. Because children pay more attention to same-gender than opposite-gender role models, even children of egalitarian parents form traditional gender-role expectations. *

6. Masculine and feminine standards of behavior are routinely portrayed in the media. *

7. Men who excel in academic fields such as science or engineering were born with the necessary cognitive attributes. *

8. Little girls play with toy dishes rather than toy trucks because the play preferences of girls & boys are shaped by the world they grow up in. *

9. Parents of boys must use strict supervision and frequent prohibitions because engaging in dangerous, risk-taking behavior is deeply ingrained in boys right from the start. *

10. To show that you are reading carefully, do not select an option here. Leave this blank & go onto the next question. *

11. Men are reluctant to choose historically female occupations as those jobs carry lower social status, less power, and lower compensation compared to traditional male occupations. *

12. Women prefer jobs working with people rather than things because women evolved to nurture children and families. *

13. Exposure to prenatal hormones, particularly differences in testosterone, produce gender differences in cognitive skills & personality traits. *

14. Men tend to be less helpful and nurturing than women are because society values those traits in women, but not in men. *

15. Gender differences in behavior or personality, with no inherent biological basis, often change from one generation to the next. *

16. People typically choose college majors and make career decisions based on activities they find enjoyable, rewarding, or personally meaningful rather than on what most men or women choose. *

17. Gender differences in behavior today were shaped by the separate reproductive demands faced by prehistoric men and women. *

18. Young girls are more obedient than are young boys because boys, right from the start, seem indifferent to other's approval. *

19. Whether someone is assertive, competitive, aggressive, or passive is in their DNA. *

20. Economic, political, and social factors had little historical impact on how men and women behaved in previous generations. *

22. Someone's biology, things like their anatomy or hormones, have little influence over how they behave. *

23. Children, especially boys, are praised and rewarded for engaging in same-sex activites, but obtain disapproval if not punishment for engaging in opposite-sex activities. *

24. Once children realize that they are a boy or a girl, they selectively choose gender-typed activities and friends even without parental encouragement. *

25. Whether prehistoric males evolved to be hunters and protectors or not has little bearing on how men act in today's world. *

26. Children's own ideas or expectations lead them to see more or less gender differentiation than what actually exists in their world. *

27. Women have better balance and fine motor skills, while men excel at tasks requiring strength or force, because of fixed biological sex differences. *

28. While men are praised for being assertive and decisive, women with these personality traits are often criticized. *

29. Because men have a dominant left brain, they have historically held the majority of jobs in STEM fields (science, engineering, math, etc.). *

30. A person's abilities and traits are largely determined by social expectations that exist for women and men. *

31. Cognitive strengths that individual people exhibit cannot be traced back to genetic differences between men and women. *

32. Social approval and praise lead most men and women to engage in and enjoy similar activities. *

33. Brain distinctions account for differences in how well men and women understand verbal material or remember details about previous conversations. *

35. Because the left side of the brain develops more slowly in boys than girls, preschool girls have better language skills than do preschool boys. *

36. Parents talk more to daughters than to sons, but they engage in more rough-and-tumble play with sons. *

37. Males and females share about 60% of their genetic material leading to gender differences in behavior that are evident soon after birth. *

38. In the last 50 years or so, the parental role models children see at home rarely engage in traditional masculine or feminine activities. *

39. Enrolling boys and girls in single-sex primary and secondary schools takes advantage of biologically based differences in learning. *

40. Differences in the abilities and traits of men & women can be traced back to the culture in which they were raised. *

41. Men are better than women at visuo-spatial tasks due to different childhood experiences including the type and frequency of video games played. *

42. Women excel as occupations requiring social interaction and cooperation because they have a more developed social brain than do men. *

43. Despite having excellent verbal and quantitative skills, women without successful role models doubt they can handle the educational or job requirements needed to succeed in traditional male occupations. *

44. When the behavior of women & men differ, differences are due to the kinds of opportunities they've had and the cultural barriers they've faced. *

46. Girls, compared to boys, are much more likely to be hard-wired to fear spiders and snakes. *

47. Men provide financially for their families in most societies because gender discrimination and cultural expectations limit opportunities for women. *

48. There are many male math professors but few male literature professors because of innate differences between men and women. *

49. Parents today raise their sons and daughter similarly, fostering curiosity and encouraging cooperation regardless of the child's gender. *

50. Men tend to be more decisive and women more submissive, traits largely determined by genetic factors. *

51. New mothers returning to work report being criticized for too little involvement at home, while new fathers report being criticized for too little involvement at work. *

52. While men and women complete tests assessing math or verbal skills, brain imaging measures show nearly identical activity. *

53. Women, for 1000s of years, have easily expressed and interpreted emotional expressions because natural selection needed women to foster the formation of social groups. *

54. Sex differences in learning styles, and in the use of logic or intuition, are hard-wired in the human brain. *

55. Children choice of same-sex playmates, beginning in preschool, limits their opportunities for engaging in non-gendered or opposite-gender activities. *

56. Being pregnant, with all the physiological changes that take place, ensures that women will be caring, nurturing mothers. *

57. Parents today are more more likely to encourage autonomy and independence in their sons than in their daughters. *

59. Variations in how easily people solve problems requiring analytical, mathematical, or logical skills are not due to innate or inborn differencs. *

60. Differential treatment by parents, teachers, and peers enables children to extract rules regarding gender-appropriate behavior once they've categorized themselves as boys or girls. *

61. The encouragement or exclusion of men and women into different careers affects people's professional identification & sense of belonging. *

62. Women and men are fundamentally good at different things and these differences are hard to change. *

63. The distribution of men and women into different social roles provides many traditional, gender-typed role models for children today. *

64. Many male behavioral traits and characteristics are due to someone having a Y chromosome. *

65. Gender differences in behavior are mainly due to how people have been treated by their parents, teachers, and peers. *

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Extra Credit: Gender Survey