1. Perceiving Asian Men as Role Models for Women in STEM
Mansi P. Joshi, Kimberly E. Chaney, & Diana T. Sanchez
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
Background
Measures
Results Ctd.
Role Models
Exposure to successful female experts in science and engineering cues inclusivity for women and promotes identification and self-efficacy in STEM students (Stout et al., 2011)
Identity Safety Cues Transfer
Transfer due to an understanding of the overlapping nature of intergroup attitudes
E.g. Women and men of color report greater anticipated inclusion at organizations with gender diversity awards (Chaney et al., 2016)
Gendered Race
Asian men and White women are similarly stereotyped as interdependent, communal, and oriented toward others (Eagly & Steffen, 1984; Spence & Helmreich, 1978)
Asian men are perceived as feminine (Johnson, Freeman, Pauker, 2012)
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Perceived Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) (Ho et al., 2015)
E.g., Some groups of people must be kept in their place
1 (X Would strongly oppose) – 7 (Would strongly favor)
Identification with Critical Department Head (Young et al., 2013)
E.g. How much would a female computer scientist identify with X
1 (Not at all) – 7 (Very much)
Perceived Stereotype Overlap
To what extent do you believe women and Asian men are similarly stereotyped?
1 (Not at all Similar) – 7 (Very Similar)
Moderation: B = -0.18, SE=0.09, p = .03
Future Directions
Recruit female computer science majors
Perceiving stereotype overlaps between White men and women in STEM
Explore implications of minority role models
Results
Initial 2 (image set: 1,2) x 3(critical department head: White male, White female, Asian male) between subject ANOVAs revealed no effect of image sets on critical variables, Fs < 0.46, ps > .50
Hypothesis **
Asian male experts will serve as incongruent identity safety cues which promote identification with STEM among women who perceive Asian men as feminine, due to a perception of the expert as more egalitarian than a White male expert
References **
Chaney, K. E., Sanchez, D. T., & Remedios, J. D. (2016). Organizational Identity Safety Cue Transfers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(11),
Eagly, A. H., & Steffen, V. J. (1984). Gender stereotypes stem from the distribution of women and men into social roles. Journal of personality and social psychology, 46(4),
Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Kteily, N., Sheehy-Skeffington, J, Pratto, F., Henkel, K. E., Foels, R., & Stewart, A. L. (in press). The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO7 scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Johnson, K. L., Freeman, J. B., & Pauker, K. (2012). Race is gendered: how covarying phenotypes and stereotypes bias sex categorization. Journal of personality and social psychology, 102(1), 116.
Spence, J. T., & Helmreich, R. L. (1978). Masculinity & femininity: Their psychological dimensions, correlates, & antecedents. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Stout, J. G., Dasgupta, N., Hunsinger, M., & McManus, M. A. (2011). STEMing the tide: using ingroup experts to inoculate women's self-concept in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(2),
Young, D. M., Rudman, L. A., Buettner, H. M., & McLean, M. C. (2013). The influence of female role models on women’s implicit science cognitions. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 37(3),
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Participants
Participants: 179 White female participants recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Age: M = years, SD = 11.96, ranged from 21 to 70 years
Perceived SDO: F(2,176) = 5.22, p < .01, ηp2= 0.06
Identification: F(2,176) = 10.80, p <.001, ηp2= 0.11
No effect of condition on Perceived Overlap: F(2,175) = 0.52, p = .59, ηp2= 0.01