2008年の研究を紹介します。性格、セクシュアリティ、態度、感情、行動、認知能力など ほとんどの心理的特性だけでなく、身長、肥満、血圧など多くの身体的特徴でさえも 男女平等社会の方が大きい。
Empirically, sex differences in most psychological traits—in personality, sexuality, attitudes, emotions, behaviors, and cognitive abilities—are conspicuously larger in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity. Even sex differences in many physical traits such as height, obesity, and blood pressure are larger in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity.
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization
この論文は、性差は社会の要請で男性は男性らしく 女性は女性らしく「後天的に」作られる という社会的役割理論に対する反論として提出されました。
