Gender Role Attitudes | Korea Inequality Research Network

Past colloquium

A Big (Male) Fish in a Small Pond? The Gendered Effect of Ability Rank on Adolescent STEM Aspirations under Gender-Math Stereotypes

Colloquium in Sept. 2021 Kim, Jinho (Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management at Korea University, South Korea) Despite gender similarity in math ability, studies show persistent gender differences in STEM aspirations among adolescents. Extending previous literature on student math ability, biased self-assessment, and gender stereotypes, this paper emphasizes Read more…

By KIRN, 3 years ago

Past colloquium

Gendered Age Preferences for Potential Partners: A Mixed-Methods Study among Online Daters in Shanghai

Colloquium in Dec. 2018 Qian, Yue (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) Based on the data of 3,000 female and 3,000 male users of a popular Chinese dating website living in Shanghai, China, this study analyzes how their preferences for age hyper-gamy (male partner older than Read more…

By KIRN, 5 years ago

Recent Studies

Changing Gender Role Attitudes and Women’s Lives in Korea

Women’s Economic Activities and the Gender Role Attitudes in Conjugal Relationships Mun, Ji-Sun. 2017. Korean Journal of Sociology 51(2): 191-232. This study analyzed how conjugal gender role attitudes on economic activity of married women is related to the women’s actual economic activity. It observed three(3)-quantile families by household income which Read more…

By KIRN, 5 years ago