Who am I?: Analysis of gender stereotypes between different cultures through the exploration of their drawings and stories by Teresa Fernández de Juan, Iyamira Hernández Pita

“…The study presented here allows, through drawing and stories, identify different cultural groups how to build social constructs of gender conditioning, reproduced from generation to generation and behaviors expressed in everyday life. …”
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Gender Symbolic Messages in Music and Magazines Consumed by Young Mexicans by Martha P. Zarza Delgado, Héctor Serrano Barquín, Carolina Serrano Barquín

“…Music and magazines are methods of symbolic communication for youth, through which they receive and send concrete messages about social constructs of gender. The aim of this paper is to report the results obtained in the analysis of visual and textual codes in music and magazines consumed by young Mexicans daily. …”
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Making Sense of it: Why Democracy (and Feminism) Needs to Go Beyond Binary Citizenship by Rafael Vázquez García

“… This text assumes and departs from three basic premises: 1) identities are not born but constructed through repeated performative actions that are in turn informed by existing social constructions of gender; 2) analysing and understanding the ways in which gender is shared and historically constructed can lead to a construction of gender that goes beyond the binary system on which heteronormativity depends; 3) feminism is inherently democratic and entails the consolidation of the very conception of ​​democracy. …”
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Transferencias monetarias estatales e intimidad: la dimensión moral del dinero en los hogares argentinos by Martín Hornes

“…Indeed, this situation generates new power relations that are mobilized from disputes over social constructions of gender and intergenerational interpretations of the moral meanings that such money acquires.…”
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VIEWS ON SUCCESS IN LIFE BASED GENDER by Adina Magdalena IORGA

“…In order to study the characteristics of success in life we must consider the social construction of genders (male and female) manifested in the interaction between the sexes. …”
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“Mother Ireland, get off our backs”: Gender, Republicanism and State Politics in Prison Short Stories by Northern Irish Women Writers by Mercedes del Campo del Pozo

“…They confront established discourses of masculinity and femininity by subverting social constructs of gender, particularly the models of the rebel-hero and Mother Ireland ingrained in the nationalist/republican traditions. …”
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Gendered Performance, Fluid Identities and Protest in Tess Onwueme’s Then She Said It by Amaefula Rowland Chukwuemeka

“…This study examines the social constructions of gender as the encapsulation of reiterated human conducts within varying sites of performance. …”
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Reconciling Anti-Essentialism and Quantitative Methodology by Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen

“…However, by application of Williams’ ideas of treating the categories in question as dependently rather than independently determined, social categories can be deconstructed quantitatively,  enriching both the theoretical and empirical understandings of population-level social constructions of genders, ethnicities etc. Quantitative deconstruction has the potential to reconcile anti-essentialism and quantitative methodology, and thus, to make peace in the quantitative/qualitative Paradigm Wars.…”
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Authoritarianism as an element of social character and a factor of gendered social interaction by Jovančević Saša

“…In this paper the analysis is centered on the concept of social character, with special emphasis on authoritarianism as a continuous determinant of the transformation of natural sex into social construct of gender. It is precisely the authoritarian personality type that is the basis for alienated gender, dominated by sexism, a “natural” belonging to the private or the public sphere of social life, suppression of individual human capacities, and reduction of choice. …”
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Production of Gender: A Study on Performativity in Female-To-Male Transsexuals by Tanu Priya, Dhishna Panniko

“…It believes that sex and gender are viewed as not residing in the individual but are found in “those interactions that are socially constructed as gendered as opposed to essentialist tradition. …”
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Media images and the gendered representation of chefs by Beverly (Shih-Yun) Chen, Alison McIntosh, Candice Harris, Warren Goodsir

“…This article aims to fill that gap through an exploration of how online hospitality media may socially construct the gendered nature of the chef profession. …”
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Health innovation project: A concept paper on a virtual health promotion program for men by Tong, S.F., Khoo, E.M., Low, W.Y., Ng, C.J., Wong, C.H., Yusoff, H.M., Abu Bakar, A.I., Tan, H.M., Jiwa, M.

“…Men's poor engagement in health-promoting activities has been attributed to the socially constructed male gender identity. Hence, health innovations to promote men's health have to take into the account their social identity and health-seeking behavior. …”

Sex and gender affect immune aging by Anna Calabrò, Giulia Accardi, Anna Aiello, Calogero Caruso, Giuseppina Candore

“…The proposed review aims to elucidate the intricate interplay between biological factors (sex differences) and socially constructed factors (gender differences) in the context of immune aging. …”
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Patriarchy, couple counselling and testing in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe by Vimbai Chibango, Cheryl Potgieter

“…The study revealed that CHCT initiatives were hampered by certain patriarchal behaviours and beliefs that make it acceptable for men to have multiple sexual partners, thereby exposing their marriages and relationships to HIV. Social constructions around gender roles tend to prescribe women as the sole custodians of children’s health, and this led to stigmatisation against men who participated in PMTCT programmes. …”
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Factors associated with the gender gap in the STEM sector: Comparison of theoretical and empirical concept maps and qualitative SWOT analysis by Sonia Verdugo-Castro, Ma Cruz Sánchez-Gómez, Alicia García-Holgado

“…As a result, it has been observed that there are extrinsic and intrinsic factors and that social constructs and gender stereotypes strongly influence the perception of men, women, and professions and the masculinisation and feminisation of these. …”
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Gender and HIV/AIDS: Exploring Men and Vulnerability Towards Effective HIV/AIDS Policy Interventions and Sub-Saharan Africa by Ogochukwu Nzewi

“…This has resulted in prevention strategies, which are encumbered by the reality of poverty, gender, access, power and the various debates on behavioural change. The social constructions of gender roles and power relations play a significant role in the region’s HIV /Aids dynamic. …”
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Comparer pour comprendre: la differentiation sexuée des parcours professionnels et familiaux des enseignant-e-s du second degré en France et en Angleterre = Comparing to understand... by Moreau, Marie-Pierre

“…Thanks to the articulation of these different levels of analysis from a cross-national comparative perspective, the thesis underlines how gender inequalities are socially constructed. Although gender inequalities can be identified in teaching careers in both countries, they nevertheless take different forms according to the national context. …”
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