Gender and Power Relations

Power is considered the most fundamental force underlying human behavior, and gender is considered the most basic category underlying human perception. Gender and power are inextricably intertwined and create social division. In an increasingly unsettled and uncertain world, with shifting patterns of migration, globalization, and colonialism, there is a need for social psychological science to investigate and demonstrate how forces related to power and gender interact and transact gender inequalities.

This Research Topic on Gender and Power Relations aims to showcase new theoretically driven research that applies multi-method approaches to understanding how power is gendered, how power inequalities shape gender relations, how gender relations shape power hierarchies, the contextual features of gendered power, and the implications of gendered power for equality and equity across individuals, groups, and societies.

Specifically, this Research Topic welcomes submissions that advance knowledge in any of the following areas (but not limited to):
• Bases of gendered power
• Applying power theories to gender relations
• Applying theories of gender to power relations
• Social power and diverse gender identities
• Social power and gender stereotypes
• Social power and gender ideologies and attitudes
• Intersectional perspectives on gender and social power
• Social-ecological factors related to gender and power
• Cross-cultural and cross-national investigations of gender and power
• Power, gender, and intimate relationships
• Power, gender, and leadership
• Power, gender, and political participation
• Power, gender, and violence
• Power, gender, and health
• Power, gender, and social change