Atteggiamenti sessisti e rappresentazioni di una carica politica declinata al maschile o al femminile fra studenti cinesi. Primi risultati di ricerca

We investigate gender representations applied to a Ministerial political office, the attitudes towards women in a group of Chinese college students and whether such attitudes are reflected in the representations of the Ministerial political office. These representations were detected, inter alia, by the request of three free associations to the stimulus-words Man/Woman Minister. With the scale of Glick and Fiske (1996), administered after the free associations, we verified the twofactor structure of Ambivalent Sexism (ASI, Hostile / Benevolent Sexism) highlighted in a crosscultural comparison in 19 countries (Glick et al., 2000). The respondents were 181 students at Hangzhou Dianzi University and Zhejiang University (51.4% women; average age about 22 years) contacted in 2016. The results confirmed the two-factor structure of the ASI scale, which explains 31.8% of the total variance, with a first factor of Hostile Sexism (HS) and a second factor of Benevolent Sexism (BS). Textual data revealed a general vocabulary differentiated for Man/Woman Minister. The findings were commented by referring to the literature on stereotypes and gender bias, to the specificity of Chinese cultural context, to the comparison with similar Italian investigations, and also to the reference to political representations.