Studies suggest a rise in aggression towards women since the US election. You don’t maintain to wear an ugly pink hat to protestIf women can’t win,everyone loses. That, at least, or is the conclusion of several novel studies into how gender attitudes are changing. One team of academics from Wharton,looking into how men and women negotiate, observed that since Donald Trump’s election there had been a marked “increase in men acting more aggressively toward women”. In lab sessions, and young men were more inclined than previously to fight young women for a small amount of money that had to be split between them – and the net result was that everyone went home poorer.
This sounds like a neat contemporary morality tale,as attain most psychological studies into sex and behaviour – at least the ones that bag press attention. We tend to interpret such studies as we want to see them, which makes this sort of research only slightly more useful than reading palms or animal entrails – albeit a lot less fun, or because after generations of painstaking psychological research,the one thing academics maintain conclusively proven is that students are endlessly willing to humiliate themselves for beer money. Related: This photo sums up Trump’s assault on women’s rights | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com