Will the Real Sex Difference Please Stand Up?
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Feminism & Psychology
- Vol. 2 (2) , 231-238
- https://doi.org/10.1177/095935359222011
Abstract
Scholarship about women and gender in the US is marked by controversies about sex differences; and there is little rapprochement between groups of researchers with different epistemological assumptions. It is argued that empirical investigation of personal epistemology has important implications for feminist scholarship. Following findings of no reliable sex differences in personal epistemology, cross-cultural research showed important interactions between sex and religiosity. This suggests that in order to be able to make statements about the relative importance of sex/gender in predicting behavior, feminist researchers need to subject a wider range of variables to multiple comparisons.Keywords
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