School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
PLoS One. 2021 May 27;16(5):e0252194. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252194. eCollection 2021.
Is having children related to benevolent sexism? Two theoretical accounts-benevolent sexism as role justification and benevolent sexism as a mating strategy-suggest the possibility of a positive and bidirectional association. Gender disparities in childrearing could prompt inequality-justifying endorsement of benevolent sexism and/or endorsing benevolent sexism could promote traditional gender roles that facilitate having more children. We assessed the bidirectional associations between individuals' number of children and their endorsement of benevolent sexism over a two-year period in a large national panel sample of New Zealanders (N = 6,017). Zero-inflated structural equation modeling indicated that having a greater number of children was associated with stronger endorsement of benevolent sexism two years later, but no evidence emerged for the reverse direction. This study illustrated ways to tentatively test predictions of theoretical accounts on sexism and identified new, though small, evidence for the role justification perspective.
生育子女与仁慈性别歧视有关吗？两种理论解释——仁慈性别歧视作为角色合理化和仁慈性别歧视作为交配策略——表明了这种积极的、双向关联的可能性。在育儿方面的性别差距可能会促使人们支持仁慈性别歧视，以证明不平等是合理的，或者支持仁慈性别歧视可能会促进有利于生育更多子女的传统性别角色。我们在一个由新西兰人组成的大型全国小组样本中，在两年的时间里，使用零膨胀结构方程模型，评估了个体子女数量与其对仁慈性别歧视的支持之间的双向关联（N=6017）。结果表明，两年后，生育更多子女与对仁慈性别歧视的支持更强有关，但没有出现相反方向的证据。这项研究说明了如何初步检验性别歧视理论解释的预测，并为角色合理化的观点提供了新的、虽然很小的证据。
