What Is Sexual Inequality? On the Definition and Range of Variation

Hendrix, Lewellyn

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“…From 52 relevant variables, 9 composite codes of female status were developed (see Table 1). The distributions of males and females on these scales have been replicated in other similar measures (e.g., Hayden, Deal, Cannon, & Casey, 1986;Hendrix, 1994;Ross, 1986;Sanday, 1981), lending validity to their applicability as a measure of female status.…”

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Female Status Predicts Female Mate Preferences Across Nonindustrial Societies

Moore¹,

Cassidy

2007

Cross-Cultural Research

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Most studies demonstrating the contribution of economic constraints on women to sex differences in mate preferences have used samples from postindustrial societies with similar social structures. The authors investigate the effects of female status on female mate preferences in a subsection of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Whyte's (1978) codes provide indicators of female status, and mate preferences are obtained through qualitative analysis of ethnographic data in the Human Relations Area Files. Two measures of female status are found to relate to the relative

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Section: Methods Female Statusmentioning

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Female Status Predicts Female Mate Preferences Across Nonindustrial Societies

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Cassidy

2007

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“…It is noteworthy, in this context, that although there are gender differences in status (males typically hold higher-status positions than females in most human and non-human hierarchies; Hendrix, 1994), we have no reason to expect gender differences in the status-promoting functions of pride. There are no perceiver-gender differences in recognition of the pride expression, and the only target-(i.e., expresser) gender difference found thus far suggests that pride is more readily recognized when it is displayed by women, perhaps because it "stands out" more from the prototypical female stance than from the prototypical male stance, the latter of which may include a broad posture (Tracy & Robins, 2008b).…”

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A Naturalist’s View of Pride

2010

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Although pride has been central to philosophical and religious discussions of emotion for thousands of years, it has largely been neglected by psychologists. However, in the past decade a growing body of psychological research on pride has emerged; new theory and findings suggest that pride is a psychologically important and evolutionarily adaptive emotion. In this article we review this accumulated body of research and argue for a naturalist account of pride, which presumes that pride emerged by way of natural selection. In this view, pride is prevalent in human life because of the functional and adaptive role it has played in the attainment, maintenance, and communication of social status throughout our evolutionary history.

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“…Also, her Male Aggression Scale is not a measure of aggression toward women per se but toward other men as well. She combines her measures of male aggression and female power into a measure of male dominance, which makes little methodological or theoretical sense in its context, unless one assumes that violence is a resource for male power in some societies (see Hendrix, 1994, for a discussion of these concepts and measures and those of other authors).…”

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“…Yet, companionship is a key dimension in many marital quality measures and in the theories of family change that give marital quality research its charter. The measures of sexual inequality are problem ridden, in part because scholars do not agree on the meaning of sexual inequality (Hendrix, 1994). In light of this disagreement, it is understandable that measures are disparate.…”

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Quality and Equality in Marriage: A Cross- Cultural View

Hendrix¹

1997

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Recent textbook treatments of marital quality and equality treat equality as a precondition for marital quality. Other comparative treatments have viewed quality and equality as unrelated or inversely related. Using data from a sample of 186 preindustrial societies, one dimension of marital quality is examined against 13 indicators of sexual inequality and 4 indicators of marital role sharing. The findings show that role sharing is the more crucial factor to marital quality. Implications for research and theory are discussed.A little-challenged hypotheses in marital quality studies is that equality is needed for a quality relationship in marriage. However, this hypothesis is not generally accepted outside of today's marital quality studies. Before reporting on a cross-cultural test of the quality-equality hypothesis, I want to glance at the roots of marital quality studies and at alternate formulations of the relationship between quality and equality in marriage to show the need for comparative research. This undertaking will show the need for broadening one's view beyond contemporary family problem conat UNIV OF PITTSBURGH on June 20, 2015 ccr.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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What Is Sexual Inequality? On the Definition and Range of Variation

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Female Status Predicts Female Mate Preferences Across Nonindustrial Societies

Female Status Predicts Female Mate Preferences Across Nonindustrial Societies

A Naturalist’s View of Pride

Quality and Equality in Marriage: A Cross- Cultural View

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