通过支持男性的情感灵活性促进性别平等

IF 3.4 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
A. Croft, Ciara Atkinson, Alexis M. May
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摘要

近年来,性别平等的进展放缓或停滞,主要是因为女性的性别刻板印象和角色变化比男性更快。女性越来越自由地表现得更像男性,而男性的类似自由(表现得更象女性)出现的速度较慢。对男性的期望仍然很严格:他们不鼓励表现出软弱/脆弱,并鼓励他们通过表现出力量/韧性来彰显男子气概。这些期望削弱了男性的情感灵活性,这不仅损害了他们的身体健康和福祉,而且系统性地阻碍了性别平等的努力。我们总结了男性相对情绪不灵活的直接和间接后果,以及影响男性情绪灵活性发展的文化和心理障碍。然后,我们提供了基于经验的政策建议,以培养男性的情感灵活性,这反过来可以促进他们的身心健康,破坏传统的性别刻板印象,并促进美国更广泛的性别平等。
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Promoting Gender Equality by Supporting Men’s Emotional Flexibility
Progress toward gender equality has slowed or stalled in recent years, primarily because gender stereotypes and roles are changing more quickly for women than men. Women are increasingly free to behave more like men, whereas a similar freedom for men (to behave more like women) has been slower to emerge. Expectations governing men remain rigid: They are discouraged from showing weakness/vulnerability and encouraged to assert masculinity by demonstrating strength/toughness. These expectations undermine men’s emotional flexibility, which not only harms their physical health and well-being but also systematically impedes gender equality efforts. We summarize both the direct and indirect consequences of men’s relative emotional inflexibility, as well as cultural and psychological barriers to men’s emotional flexibility development. We then provide empirically based policy recommendations for cultivating emotional flexibility in men, which could in turn foster their physical and mental health, undermine traditional gender stereotypes, and promote broader gender equality in the United States.
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Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Social Sciences-Public Administration
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