How Does Gender Roles Role Play A Role In Helping Behavior?

It was found that more people were willing to help a female then to help a male in both cases. It did not matter if the female confederate was injured or not, they were helped more often. It was also shown that females were helped in a faster time frame then our male confederates. Whether the confederate was male or female did play a role in this study. The female confederates received more help from the participants then the males. This is not saying that the male confederates were not helped but the amount that they were helped was less than the female confederates.
This means that in this study it was shown that individuals both male and female are more willing to show helping behavior to a female. From this study it means that there …show more content…
They have looked at both the effect of the gender of the confederate as well as the gender of the participants. However for this study the gender of the participants were not looked at. In a previous study it was talked about the fact that gender roles do in fact play a role in helping behavior. Males are seen to help the person in trouble more than a women because of the gender rules that that’s what a male should do. Males are seen to be the heroes and should come to the rescue of anyone but especially when they are female (Shnabel, Bar-Anan, Kende, Bareket, & Lazar, 2016). Males are seen to help females more especially when it comes to the type of help they need (Shnabel et al., 2016). Another study talked about the fact that role performance plays a role into whether or not someone is will to help another individual out. Role performance plays into males helping out more, especially when it comes to helping a female in trouble (Schwartz, Keyl, Marcum, & Bode, 2009). Gender roles and role performance play a role in gender differences in helping behavior, yet another factors also contribute to this according to other …show more content…
I think that there needs to be more studies done on the reasoning behind why in fact more females were helped over them males. Also the fact that why in fact when both the male and the female confederates were injured, why in fact that females were in fact helped more often than the males. Helping behavior needs to be looked at and studied in greater perspective while specifically looking at gender. The role that gender plays on the helper as well as the helped. Gender roles play a key part in society, yet with them slowly changing from the normal strict roles to more lose guidelines, will this eventually play a role in changing the gender gap when it comes to