nout on Nostr: I don't have a great soundbite evidence, but I can roll out the argument through ...
I don't have a great soundbite evidence, but I can roll out the argument through indirect evidence:
- Hierarchy has direct effect on health (cardiovascular system, cortisone levels)
- Hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor
- Male and female hierarchies are different - male are more strict structure (shown in mice and some studies on primates/humans)
- Social comparison has worse effects for women
- Countries pushing for gender equality resulted in more psychological differences between men and women.
This psychology journal explored hierarchy from different directions, but especially the effects on health:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology/vol/33/suppl/C
The results (e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X19300946 ) show that the people on top of hierarchy end up being healthier, less stressed, etc. Fairly believable imo, matches my personal experience.
Further, hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor (shown in
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5494206/#:~:text=Importantly%2C%20the%20organization%20of%20social,and%20labor%20among%20group%20members. with further evidence)
There is way more research in mice and monkeys, but not sure how much you believe that translates into humans, e.g. showing differences between male and female hierarchies: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43747-w#:~:text=Female%20mouse%20hierarchies%20exhibit%20several,directional%20consistency%20than%20male%20hierarchies.
Now to the point, this shows one example where social comparison is notably worse for women compared to men: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21642850.2024.2390939#references-Section
And just to highlight, if the countries/nations push more towards gender equality (in some dimension, like work), it actually ends up in causing larger psychological difference in personality, values, and emotions between men and women (as shown in https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-07951-011 ), which presumably would make the social comparison effects more pronounced.
- Hierarchy has direct effect on health (cardiovascular system, cortisone levels)
- Hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor
- Male and female hierarchies are different - male are more strict structure (shown in mice and some studies on primates/humans)
- Social comparison has worse effects for women
- Countries pushing for gender equality resulted in more psychological differences between men and women.
This psychology journal explored hierarchy from different directions, but especially the effects on health:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology/vol/33/suppl/C
The results (e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X19300946 ) show that the people on top of hierarchy end up being healthier, less stressed, etc. Fairly believable imo, matches my personal experience.
Further, hierarchy can be effective way to divide goods and labor (shown in
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5494206/#:~:text=Importantly%2C%20the%20organization%20of%20social,and%20labor%20among%20group%20members. with further evidence)
There is way more research in mice and monkeys, but not sure how much you believe that translates into humans, e.g. showing differences between male and female hierarchies: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43747-w#:~:text=Female%20mouse%20hierarchies%20exhibit%20several,directional%20consistency%20than%20male%20hierarchies.
Now to the point, this shows one example where social comparison is notably worse for women compared to men: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21642850.2024.2390939#references-Section
And just to highlight, if the countries/nations push more towards gender equality (in some dimension, like work), it actually ends up in causing larger psychological difference in personality, values, and emotions between men and women (as shown in https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-07951-011 ), which presumably would make the social comparison effects more pronounced.