According to some studies, females may be able recognize facial expressions and emotions more accurately and faster than males, especially some neutral body language.
[12] Two studies examined responses to sexual assault research, particularly focusing on how hostile sexism predicts skepticism.
Hostile sexism was found to strongly correlate with doubt towards sexual assault statistics, more so than towards other topics like breast cancer or alcohol abuse.
This suggests that deeper educational strategies might be necessary to address biases that dismiss sexual assault research due to sexist views.
Studies suggest that sexism and gender roles impact mental health outcomes as males are discouraged from appearing weak which impacts health seeking behaviour in males as they struggle to conform to gender roles where vulnerability is discouraged.