Militarist, Marxian, and Non-Marxian Materialist Theories of Gender Inequality

A Cross-Cultural Test

Bibliographic Data

ID2998048
AuthorsK Sanderson (0000-0002-4097-0496, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author), S K Sanderson, D Alex Heckert (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Joshua K Dubrow (0000-0002-0140-8441, The Ohio State University)
Year2005
Volume83
Issue4
Pages1425-1441
Publication date2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/sof.2005.0080
OpenAlexW2146500351
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

This study tested three types of theories of gender inequality in preindustrial societies by using half the societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample: militarist, Marxian, and non-Marxian materialist theories. The first phase of the research used simple cross-tabulations with chi-square as a test of significance and gamma as a measure of association. The results from this phase showed no support for militarist theories, some support for Marxian theories, and substantial support for non-Marxian materialist theories. Since the first phase involved no control variables, a second phase was conducted using multivariate analyses. These analyses confirmed that militarist theories must be emphatically rejected, and that both Marxian and non-Marxian materialist variables help determine gender inequality. Non-Marxian materialist variables, however, explain much more of the variance in gender inequality than Marxian variables do

Economics · Epistemology · Inequality · Materialism · Militarism · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Variance (accounting) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy

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