Who Receives Scientific Deference? Gender and the Public Construction of Social Scientists
Published online on July 17, 2026
Abstract
Gender & Society, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 568-590, August 2026.
Drawing on feminist metascience and Ridgeway’s “framed by gender” theory, I ask: How are men and women social scientists constructed in public media? I conduct a comparative analysis of media portrayals of eight public sociologists (four women–men pairs): ...
Drawing on feminist metascience and Ridgeway’s “framed by gender” theory, I ask: How are men and women social scientists constructed in public media? I conduct a comparative analysis of media portrayals of eight public sociologists (four women–men pairs): ...