Cohort Change in Political Gender Gaps in Europe and Canada
The Role of Modernization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7973577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosalind Shorrocks (0000-0002-3124-4214, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-175 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3292 • E-ISSN: 1552-7514 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032329217751688 |
| OpenAlex | W2770398430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
This article finds firmer evidence than has previously been presented that men are more left-wing than women in older birth cohorts, while women are more left-wing than men in younger cohorts. Analysis of the European Values Study/World Values Survey provides the first systematic test of how processes of modernization and social change have led to this phenomenon. In older cohorts, women are more right-wing primarily because of their greater religiosity and the high salience of religiosity for left-right self-placement and vote choice in older cohorts. In younger, more secular, cohorts, women’s greater support for economic equality and state intervention and, to a lesser extent, for liberal values makes them more left-wing than men. Because the gender gap varies in this way between cohorts, research focusing on the aggregate-level gap between all men and all women underestimates gender differences in left-right self-placement and vote choice
Cohort · Demographic economics · Economics · European Social Survey · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Medicine · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |