Which representations of their gender group affect men's orientation towards care? the case of parental leave-taking intentions.

ABSTRACT: Men are currently underrepresented in traditionally female care-oriented (communal) engagement such as taking parental leave, whereas they are overrepresented in traditionally male (agentic) engagement such as breadwinning or leadership. We examined to what extent different prototypical representations of men affect men's self-reported parental leave-taking intentions and more generally the future they can imagine for themselves with regard to work and care roles (i.e., their possible selves). We expected prototypes of men that combine the two basic stereotype dimensions of agency and communion to increase men's communal intentions. In two experiments (N1 = 132, N2 = 233), we presented male participants with contrived newspaper articles that described the ideal man of today with varying de

SUBMITTER: Scheifele C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8641870 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature