I was totally following the argument about gender stereotypes shaping how resilience connects to grades. But I got stuck on one thing that kinda undermines the whole premise.
You guys are using “gender” and “biological sex” totally interchangeably throughout the entire study. You recruited people based on whether they were male or female and then made all these conclusions about gender stereotypes.
But isn’t the entire point of gender theory that identity and social roles (gender) are different from biological sex? If you wanted to see how stereotypes influence behavior, shouldn’t you have actually, you know… measured gender identity or how much people buy into those masculine/feminine stereotypes?
Without that, aren’t you just finding differences between sexes and then using stereotypes to explain them after the fact? How can you be sure the results are about socialized “gender” and not just… biological sex? Feels like a pretty big flaw to build a whole gender theory argument on a variable you didn’t actually test.