New contextual paradigms for gender role conflict theory, research, and practice.

Gender-role conflict theory has suggested that women athletes will experience role conflict because they are attempting to enact both feminine and masculine gender roles, yet research findings have shown mixed support for this notion. The purpose of this study was to explore how women rugby players negotiate gender-role expectations and conflict as women participating in a traditionally masculine sport. Eleven Caucasian women, noncollege rugby players between the ages of 25 and 38 were interviewed. The results indicated that women rugby players perceived numerous discrepant gender-role expectations. In addition, three different types of gender-role conflict emerged; however, similar to previous findings, participants perceived conflicting expectations for their gender-role behavior more than they seemed to experience conflict about those expectations. Participants actively employed various strategies to resolve or avoid experiencing gender-role conflict. The resiliency displayed by the women athletes in coping with discrepant gender-role messages provides new considerations for gender-role conflict theory.

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Using Gender Role Conflict Theory in Counseling Male-to-Female Transgender Individuals

Journal of Counseling & Development ◽

10.1002/j.1556-6678.2010.tb00012.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 88 (2) ◽

pp. 214-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Stephen R. Wester ◽

Tracy A. McDonough ◽

Maureen White ◽

David L. Vogel ◽

Lareena Taylor

Keyword(s):

Gender Role ◽

Role Conflict ◽

Gender Role Conflict ◽

Conflict Theory ◽

Male To Female

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A Definition of Gender Role Conflict among Black Professional Fathers

The Qualitative Report ◽

10.46743/2160-3715/2011.1305 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Ora Robinson

Keyword(s):

Gender Role ◽

Role Conflict ◽

Gender Role Conflict ◽

Conflict Theory ◽

Role Expectations ◽

Parental Role ◽

Black And White ◽

Phenomenological Methodology ◽

And Gender ◽

Definition Of

There is very little literature that depicts the parental role of Black professional fathers positively or that samples Black participants from the upper economic strata. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into how Black professional fathers experience or perceive gender role conflict and identify clinical implications. Grounded in phenomenological methodology and gender role conflict theory, the framework is based on gender role devaluations, gender role restrictions, and gender role violations (O'Neil, Good, & Holmes, 1995). The emerging experiences found in this project were (a) a conflict between the Black and White races and (b) conflict with parental role expectations.

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