Gender bias
- Created by: Millicent99
- Created on: 16-06-17 13:16
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- GENDER BIAS
- universality; any underlying characteristic of humans that is capable of being applied to all.
- Alpha bias; real underlying differences between men and women, can portray women/ men in good or bad lights
- Freud, psychodynamic approach. Men and women go through the phallic stage differently
- Beta Bias; theories that ignores the differences between the sexes
- Most experimental methodologies are based around 'standardised treatment of participants' men and women are treated equally
- Milgram
- Androcentric; male centred research or theories
- Milgrams research
- Essentialism; differences between men and women are biological facts, there are fixed differences
- Gender based research can create mis-leading assumptions about women. Failure to challenge stereotypes may lead to a scientific justification which allows people to deny women workplace opportunities men get
- Gender bias isn't a methodological issue, it may have damaging consequences to womens lives
- BURNS (1993)
- Found that the majority of research on disabled women was on their sexuality, and issues surrounds pregnancy and sex, which objectifies them and fails to treat them as individuals
- Avoiding GB according to feminists
- women should be studied in meaning- ful real life contexts
- women should be seen as humans and not 'deficient men'
- diversity within women's groups should be studied rather than the comparison of men and women
- should collect qualitative data not quantitative
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