The lives of women and men living in the Central American countries of Belize, Costa Rica,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama are diverse with respect to …

In Mexico, inequalities between genders are significant and are reflected in varying fields:
education, health, economics, and politics. These differences are also visible with respect to …

This review essay examines areas of research that have been developed in the study of
masculinity in Latin America, some of the most promising have focused on questions of …

A central tenet of feminism is that gender determines destiny and, therefore, the primary goal
of feminism is to end sexist oppression. Although I do not oppose this goal (indeed, I …

Equality between women and men has been a doctrine well recognized in international law
since the adoption of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations …

Decades ago, the emergence of feminist psychology upended the old order by redefining
sex and gender. Soon thereafter, scholars such as Ron Levant recognized the importance of …

The study of gender differences began in earnest in the 1970s and has since increased
dramatically to infiltrate virtually all fields of study in the social and behavioral sciences …

This article evaluates the research conducted on sex roles and perceptions of femininity and
masculinity of Hispanic women. It begins with a critical review of early social and …

Given the persistent and striking gender inequalities worldwide, the goal of this chapter is to
elaborate the relation of sexism and sexist ideology, on the one hand, to dominance …

Rich, original, and transformative, the latest edition of A New Psychology of Women
examines how gender-related expectations interact with other cultural assumptions and …