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Image credits: dwilli10 #14. Not being so obsessed with 'disrespect'. Being able to let it roll off your back when someone slights you, and not having to have a loud confrontation about it.
Women who adopt these characteristics may be more successful, but also more disliked due to not conforming with expected feminine stereotypes. [101] According to a study in the UK, women with stereotypically masculine personality traits are more likely to gain access to high-paying occupations than women with feminine personality traits. [102]
The Virgin Mary is the ideal female figure, representing characteristics such as "semi divinity, moral superiority, and spiritual strengths all the which are expected from women under machismo and marianismo. [6] The man is the head of the household while the "fragile" woman is submissive and tends to remain behind the scenes.
In Yiddish, mentsh roughly means "a good person". [4] The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, where a mensch is a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague. [5]
It was found that there was a stronger correlation between a woman’s perceived positive traits in the man than in her goals for the dating relationship, both of which were measured in the questionnaire. [18] The two traits that predicted likelihood for wanting to pursue a relationship were physical attractiveness and niceness/sweetness.
Hegemonic masculinity imposes an ideal set of traits which stipulate that a man can never be unfeminine enough. Thus, fully achieving hegemonic masculinity becomes an unattainable ideal. Complicity to the aforementioned masculine characteristics was another key feature of the original framework of hegemonic masculinity.
Earlier studies of achievement often emphasized the notion that high-achieving people typically possess traits above and beyond that of normal ability. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Duckworth et al. emphasized that grit is a better predictor of achievement than intellectual talent (IQ), because grit provides the stamina required to "stay the course" amid ...