Gender Transgression and Sexual Orientation:

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Gender Transgression and Sexual Orientation

• Their Impact on Judges Ratings

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Introduction

• Gender and Sex
• Are they the same?
• Prescribed gender roles
• Males Agentic
• Females Communal
• Gender transgression
• Harsher punishment for males
• Sexuality?
• Ratings

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Hypotheses

• Straight non-transgressors will be viewed most
  favorably, followed by straight gender
  transgressors, followed by gay non-transgressors,
  finally followed by gay gender transgressors. How
  about making it a list?
• Women will view gay men and gender transgressors
  more favorably than men will. I have a bias
  against complete sentences in presentations
• Self-identified gay and bisexual participants
  will view gay men and gender transgressors more
  favorably than straight people will.

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Method

• Participants
• Questionnaires
• Descriptions
• Gay transgressor gay non-transgressor straight
  transgressor straight non-transgressor
• Professional situations v. social situations
• Feeling thermometer
• Demographics

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Results and Discussion

• MANOVA
• Main effects
• Professional settings
• Comfort as employee Transgression (F (1, 57)
  8.15 (p lt .01))
• Comfort as supervisor Transgression (F (1, 57)
  8.96 (p lt .01))
• Social settings
• Time alone Orientation (F (1, 57) 10.85 (p lt
  .01)), Transgression (F (1, 57) 7.81 (p lt .01))
  
• Time in group Orientation (F (1, 57) 8.19 (p lt
  .01)), Transgression (F (1, 57) 4.08 (p lt .05))
  
• Feeling thermometer Orientation (F (1, 51)
  7.86 (p lt .01)), Transgression (F (1, 51) 8.52
  (p lt .01)) we already discussed dumping the Fs

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Main effects
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Feeling thermometer
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Main effects

• Social v. professional settings
• Contact hypothesis (Herek Glunt, 1993)

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Interactions by Sex

• Professional settings
• None
• Social settings
• Time alone Orientation x Sex (F (1, 56) 5.68
  (p lt .05))

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Interactions by Sex

• Non-threatening
• In-group preferences

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Interactions by SOP

• Professional settings
• Comfort as employee
• Transgression x SOP (F (1, 55) 4.94 (p lt .05))

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Interactions by SOP

• Social settings
• Time alone
• Transgression x SOP (F (1, 55) 10.73 (p lt .01))
  
• Time in group
• Transgression x SOP (F (1, 55) 6.43 (p lt .05))
• Feeling thermometer
• Transgression x SOP (F (1, 49) 6.66 (p lt .05))

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Interactions by SOP
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Interactions by SOP

• In-group preferences

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Discussion

• Small sample size
• Social desirability
• Women

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References

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• Schope, R. D. Eliason, M. J. (2004). Sissies
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• Sirin, S. R., McCreary, D. R., Mahalik, J. R.
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  gender role transgressions Perceptions of social
  status, sexual orientation, and value
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