Income inequality not gender inequality positively covaries with female sexualization on social media.

ABSTRACT: Publicly displayed, sexualized depictions of women have proliferated, enabled by new communication technologies, including the internet and mobile devices. These depictions are often claimed to be outcomes of a culture of gender inequality and female oppression, but, paradoxically, recent rises in sexualization are most notable in societies that have made strong progress toward gender parity. Few empirical tests of the relation between gender inequality and sexualization exist, and there are even fewer tests of alternative hypotheses. We examined aggregate patterns in 68,562 sexualized self-portrait photographs ("sexy selfies") shared publicly on Twitter and Instagram and their association with city-, county-, and cross-national indicators of gender inequality. We then investigated the ass

SUBMITTER: Blake KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126749 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature