ALIGN REPORT - How does social media influence gender norms among

Effects of social media on gender norms: current evidence 18 3.1 Evidence of associations between social media use and inequitable and harmful gender norms 20 3.2 Evidence of no association or association with more equitable gender norms 21 3.3 Interrogating the direction of influence between social media and gender norms 23 4. [...] Five quantitative studies of the impacts of social media on gender norms and attitudes found aspects of the use of social media to be associated with some aspects of sexist attitudes. [...] Evidence of associations cannot simply be interpreted as the result of the influence of social media on gender norm, and studies do not tend to find associations between all of their measures of social media use and/ or gender norms. [...] • Both qualitative and quantitative studies that provide evidence of the nature of the relationship between gender norms and the use of social media tend to suggest that pre-existing gender norms influence patterns of social media use, and that use patterns influence gender norms. [...] US-based survey research with 101 young people and 18 and 19 also suggests that a higher frequency of social media use and exposure to sexualised images on social media is associated with the sexual objectification of women and acceptance of rape myths (Tang, 2020).11 In a study of links between adherence to traditional masculine gender role and the likelihood of sexually objectifying women conduc.