Gendering and Diversifying the Research Pipeline: A Quantitative Feminist Geographical Approach to Gender in Higher Education

Sheppard, Laura; Reades, Jonathan; Freeman, Richard

doi:10.1080/24694452.2022.2160302

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“…Further, scholars give recommendations for diversifying the research pipeline at the individual level, such as mentoring undergraduates, encouraging a diversity lens (Peifer, 2019;Sheppard et al, 2023), and looking at research from multiple perspectives by developing multidisciplinary collaborations.…”

Section: Robust Psychology Requires Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Not Like Everybody Else But We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities

Junkins,

Ogolsky,

Derringer

2023

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Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people are underrepresented in psychological research—including personality and relationship sciences. Part of this underrepresentation likely stems from potential participants’ unwillingness to join a study, but more concerningly, researchers explicitly exclude data from SGM participants. Arguments for SGM exclusion often rest upon the difficulty of recruitment, as well as differences in outcomes, such as depression, and experiences, such as discrimination ([anonymized, 2023]). However, mean-level differences in dependent or independent variables do not necessarily bias estimating population effect sizes. What is often implied, but less explored, is the extent to which correlational differences may exist between groups. Applying the framework of the Gender Similarities Hypothesis (Hyde, 2005), we compare means, variances, and correlations across a range of psychosocial variables between SGM and non-SGM participants (N = 1,743). Consistent with an expansive application of the Gender Similarities Hypothesis, we find that means, variance, and correlations are largely similar across categorical identities related to both gender and sexual orientation. These results support a general expectation that similarities between groups are more common than differences in normative psychological processes, although clear differences in means and variances exist for specific experiences and outcomes. The implication of this work informs the inclusion of diverse sexual and gender identities in basic psychological research. Further, the findings speak to the generalizability of past research to populations historically underrepresented in psychological science.

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Section: Robust Psychology Requires Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Not Like Everybody Else But We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities

Junkins,

Ogolsky,

Derringer

2023

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Constructive Politics of Political Geography: From Specialty Group to “Community of Practice”

Dempsey,

Foote

2024

Political Geography in Practice

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Not Like Everybody Else but We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables Compared Across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities

Junkins,

Ogolsky,

Derringer

2024

Journal of Personality

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ObjectiveSexual and gender minority (SGM) people are underrepresented in psychological research. Part of the underrepresentation of SGM people likely stems from potential participants' unwillingness to join a study, but more concerningly, researchers exclude data from SGM participants. Furthermore, much of SGM research focuses on existing health disparities and risk factors rather than wellness‐framed and personality research. To fill in this gap, the current study aims to quantify effect sizes of similarities/differences across a broad range of psychosocial measures.MethodApplying the framework of the Gender Similarities Hypothesis, we compare means, variances, and correlations across 34 psychosocial variables between categories of SGM, gender identity, sexual orientation, relationship status, and monogamy (N = 1743). Data was collected online mainly through paid ads on Instagram.ResultsConsistently, we find largely similarities across gender identity, sexual orientation, and relationship structure categories. These results support a general expectation that similarities are more common than differences in normative psychological domains, although clear differences in means and variances exist for specific experiences and outcomes.ConclusionsThis work informs the inclusion of diverse identities in basic psychological research and further speaks to the generalizability of past findings to populations historically underrepresented in psychological science.

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Gendering and Diversifying the Research Pipeline: A Quantitative Feminist Geographical Approach to Gender in Higher Education

Cited by 3 publications

References 67 publications

Not Like Everybody Else But We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities

Not Like Everybody Else But We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities

Constructive Politics of Political Geography: From Specialty Group to “Community of Practice”

Not Like Everybody Else but We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables Compared Across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities

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