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Objectification Theory: Toward Understanding Women's Lived Experiences and Mental Health Risks:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer objectification theory as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body, and propose a framework to understand the effects of objectification on women.
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Paradoxes of gender
TL;DR: Lorber as discussed by the authors argues that gender is a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences.
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Why research on women entrepreneurs needs new directions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss what research practices cause women's subordination and suggest new research directions that do not reproduce women subordination but capture more and richer aspects of women's entrepreneurship.
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Economic Dependency, Gender, and the Division of Labor at Home
TL;DR: This paper found that the more a husband relies on his wife for economic support, the less housework he does, and that by doing less household chores, economically dependent husbands also become "dogender."
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That swimsuit becomes you: Sex differences in self-objectification, restrained eating, and math performance.
TL;DR: Two experiments manipulated self-objectification by having participants try on a swimsuit or a sweater and found that self- objectification increased body shame, which in turn predicted restrained eating and diminished math performance for women only.