Hegemonic Gender Norms and the Gender Gap in Achievement: The Case of Asian Americans.

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Autor/Urheber	Amy Hsin
Institution	Society for Sociological Science
Titel	Hegemonic Gender Norms and the Gender Gap in Achievement: The Case of Asian Americans.
Quelle	In: doi:10.15195/v5.a32; 2330-6696; Sociological Science, Vol 5, Iss 32, Pp 752-774 (2018)(2018) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.15195/v5.a32
Schlagwörter	Education; Gender; Asian Americans; Gender Norms; Culture; Sociology (General); HM401-1281
Abstract	Many argue that hegemonic gender norms depress boys' performance and account for the gender gap in achievement. I describe differences in the emergence of the gender gap in academic achievement between white and Asian American youth and explore how the immigrant experience and cultural differences in gender expectations might account for observed differences. For white students, boys are already underperforming girls in kindergarten, with the male disadvantage growing into high school. For Asian Americans, boys perform as well as girls throughout elementary school but begin underperforming relative to girls at the transition to adolescence. Additionally, I show that the Asian American gender gap is larger in schools with stronger male-centric sports cultures and where boys' underachievement is normalized. I speculate that model-minority stereotypes, the immigrant experience, and standards of masculinity that promote pro-school behaviors in boys act as protective factors in early childhood but wane at the transition to adolescence during a period when the dominant peer culture plays a larger role in shaping gender identities. The study offers evidence that the gender gap in achievement is not an inevitable fact of biology but is shaped by social environment.
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