赋权但却不人道:在性别收入不平等的背景下,对女性吸引力的看法
Lijuan Xiao1,2, Lei Cheng3, Fang Wang4
1Institute of Social Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.
BMC psychology
|August 19, 2025
概括
女性可能会利用吸引力来应对性别收入不平等,感觉有权力. 然而,观察人士认为,这种强调吸引力是不人道的,造成了感知差距.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 劳动经济学 劳动经济学
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 两性收入不平等仍然是劳动力市场的一个重大挑战.
- 为了应对这种不平等,女性可以利用感知到的吸引力作为战略资源.
- 吸引力的影响可能会根据从个人 (第一人称) 或外部 (第三人称) 的观点来评估而有所不同.
研究的目的:
- 调查女性对自己的吸引力的看法是如何受到性别收入不平等的影响.
- 检查第三方观察员在性别收入不平等的背景下如何看待女性对吸引力的重视.
主要方法:
- 为了探索对吸引力的多面感知,进行了两项研究.
- 第1项研究重点关注女性在性别收入不平等的情况下对吸引力的自我认知.
- 第二项研究评估了第三方观察员对女性的看法,强调在同一个经济背景下吸引力.
主要成果:
- 在研究1中,女性报告说,她们因自己的吸引力而感到强大.
- 第二项研究表明,观察者认为女性专注于吸引力是一种自我非人化.
- 观察者认为这些女性不那么人性化,不那么有权力,更容易被性客观化,不那么可取作为朋友.
结论:
- 女性的吸引力可以发挥赋权的功能,作为对性别收入不平等的反应.
- 女性对吸引力的自我认知与第三方如何评估它之间存在重大差异.
- 为了应对经济差距而强调吸引力,带来了意想不到的负面社会看法.
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