CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of androcentrism include the use of male terms (e.g., he), images, and research participants to represent everyone. Androcentrism has been shown to have serious consequences. For example, women’s health has been adversely affected by over-generalized medical research based solely on male participants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Androcentrism refers to the propensity to center society around men and men’s needs, priorities, and values and to relegate women to the periphery. Androcentrism also positions men as the gender-neutral standard while marking women as gender-specific.

Detailed explanation-3: -Androcentrism literally means male-centered. Androcentrism results from and perpetuates a worldview that is persistently male, as a result of patriarchy, sexism, and misogyny in historical and contemporary cultures.

Detailed explanation-4: -Androcentrism. Androcentrism means being centred on, or dominated by males and can be conscious (the individual knows they are behaving this way) or unconscious. In the past most psychologists were male, and the theories they produced tended to represent a male view of the world.