Context can shrink but never reverse the male-female dominance gap

Evidence

There are two versions of the invariance hypothesis: the strong version and the weak version (see Sidanius et al., 1995). The strong version expects SDO differences between men and women to be impervious to moderation (e.g., culture, gender role norms), and the weak version allows for the possibility that the gender differences in SDO might be moderated by factors in the social context (e.g., level of intergroup threat, ethnic homogeneity, power equality between men and women). However, the weak version would expect that this possible interaction between gender and contextual potential moderators will be ordinal rather than disordinal in nature. This is to say that while the degree to which men have higher SDO levels than women might vary across different contexts, this interaction will not produce higher SDO scores among women than among men, everything else being equal. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1254

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely distinguishes the strong and weak versions of the invariance hypothesis, including the ordinal-vs-disordinal interaction distinction.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1254
• XREF: connects to: Women’s exclusion from authority stems from learned passivity, not innate inferiority — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 673