Among his many achievements, Jüri Allik and his colleagues were among the first to document a cross-cultural “gender paradox” in people’s self-reported personality traits. Namely, differences in how men and women describe their traits are typically larger and more conspicuous in highly gender egalitarian cultures (e.g., across Scandinavia where women and men experience more similar gender roles, sex role socialization, and sociopolitical gender equity) compared to less gender egalitarian cultures (e.g., across Africa or South/Southeast Asia). It is my honor to celebrate Jüri Allik’s sterling career with this chapter on sex differences in personality traits across one of the largest number of cultures yet investigated—58 nations of the International Sexuality Description Project-2 (ISDP-2). In this dataset, the gender paradoxical findings were replicated, with sex differences in Big Five personality traits being demonstrably larger in more gender egalitarian cultures. In our current era of most findings from classic psychological science failing to replicate, this successful replication serves as a testament to Jüri Allik’s status as among the most rigorous and prescient scientists within the field of personality psychology.
Politically incorrect paper: Given that sex egalitarian countries tend to have the greatest sex differences in personality & occupational choices, sex specific policies (increasing vacancies for the sex with lower hire proportion) may not be effective:
Sex and Care: The Evolutionary Psychological Explanations for Sex Differences in Formal Care Occupations. Peter Kay Chai Tay, Yi Yuan Ting and Kok Yang Tan. Front. Psychol., April 17 2019. https://www.bipartisanalliance.com/2019/04/incorrect-paper-given-that-sex.html
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