A new study finds evidence that occupational gender bias has consequences for men who may consider entering healthcare, early education, or domestic fields (HEED). The findings indicate that men avoid HEED careers because they expect discrimination and worry about acceptance and judgment of others. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, sheds light on the complexities of occupational gender bias and its societal repercussions.
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That title doesn’t really match the claims in the article. The title states that there is a gender bias in the field, but the article states that men avoid the fields because they expect a gender bias.
I imagine both are probably true to some extent, but they’re different issues with different solutions. The expectation of bias could quite possibly stem from societal gender standards that such fields aren’t proper for ‘real men’ rather than any actual real problems of bias in the fields (which again, I’m not denying the likely existence of).