An impediment to gender Equality?: Religion’s influence on development and reproductive policy

Forman‐Rabinovici, Aliza; Sommer, Udi

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.024

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“…According to the Pew Research Center, more than half (51%) of adult Latinos say abortion should be illegal in most or all cases, which is significantly more than the 41% of voters who are pro-life in the general public (Taylor et al, 2012). Thus, although Latino families have been susceptible to the same cultural and economic forces that are disrupting other American families, such as the rising rates of divorce and the greater prevalence of blended or mixed households, they are still more likely than other groups in American society to embrace traditional gender roles (Cox, 2016;Forman-Rabinovici and Sommer, 2018a;Forman-Rabinovici and Sommer, 2018b;Forman-Rabinovici and Sommer, 2019;Sommer and Asal, 2020). Another key factor in ideological divergence among Latinos is national.…”

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Solidarity in question: activation of dormant political dispositions and Latino support for Trump in 2020

Sommer,

Franco

2024

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Expectations about ethnic solidarity notwithstanding, Latino support for Donald Trump grew between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Despite his anti-immigration positions and policies, the number of votes cast for Trump unexpectedly increased among members of the group most strongly associated with the issue of immigration. Latinos showed considerably more variance in voting behavior than what would be expected given accounts focused mainly on their ethnic solidarity. We propose a counterintuitive explanation for this trend: due to the activation of dormant political dispositions, it is the very anti-immigration attitudes characterizing Trump that account for his ascendence among Latino voters. Latinos voting for Trump did so because of his anti-immigration positions and not despite those positions. Our findings motivate a reevaluation of standard understandings of the role of minorities in American politics writ large and in American elections more specifically. Furthermore, as anti-immigration Latinos reside disproportionately more in certain swing states, we find them to be a pivotal political force in determining election outcomes, though in unexpected ways.

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Solidarity in question: activation of dormant political dispositions and Latino support for Trump in 2020

Sommer,

Franco

2024

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…Beliefs in the field of gender based discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault summarised in Table 1 are based on the literature review implemented in December 2021-February 2022. Beliefs about employment, marital status, being young (Xiao, Zong, Geng, Deng, & Zhu, 2020), religion (Forman-Rabinovici & Sommer, 2018), race (Perry, Harp, & Oser, 2013), physical appearance (Lee, Son, Yoon, & Kim, 2017), and educational level (Carliner, Sarvet, Gordon, & Hasin, 2017) were outlined. Table 1 shows the beliefs that might impact gender based discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault.…”

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Eu Youth Beliefs in Gender Based Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault

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Zaščerinska

Macovei

2022

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Gender based discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault are the factors that impact youth engagement in the labour market and society. Monitoring of gender based discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault among young people in the European countries remains under-developed. The research aim is to analyse beliefs of young people in the European Union in gender based discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault. The research is built on the basis of both theoretical and empirical methods. The theoretical analysis shaped the conceptual framework of the research. The empirical study was based on the survey implementation. Data were collected in five European Union countries in March-April 2022. The data were analysed via the mean calculation as well as ranking. Data interpretation was applied in order to summarise the study findings. The theoretical analysis allows for the establishment of the inter-connections between beliefs and values. The data analysis reveals that young people believe in gender based discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault. The results show that physical appearance and people race are the Top 2 beliefs that coincide in all the three phenomena, namely gender based discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault. Research limitations are outlined. Future work is proposed.

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“…By contrast, the consequences of diversity in religious affiliations (denomination) for social and moral attitudes have been studied in prior research (Bennett 2015; Ellison, Burr, and McCall 1997; Traunmüller 2011), but research on this topic that includes measures of religious belief, religious behavior, or religiosity tends to conclude that affiliation differences are small or nonexistent when religious intensity measures are controlled. In particular, what appears to be an affiliation difference between Muslims and Christians tends to turn out to be a difference in religious intensity (whether measured by belief, practice, or religiosity) with Muslims on average scoring higher than Christians, but no affiliation effect controlling for religious intensity, on attitudes toward abortion or gender roles (Forman‐Rabinovici and Somme 2018) or on preference for religious political leaders (Breznau et al. 2011).…”

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Diversity in Religiosity Undermines Conventional Personal Morality Across the Globe: Evidence From 90 Nations, 300,000+ Individuals

Evans

Kelley

2021

Scientific Study of Religion

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In societies where the populace exhibits a wide range of religiosity, social conservatives (religiously devout or socially traditional) feel their beliefs and way of life threatened, even where others in their society (secular, or socially liberal) have no desire to threaten them, or to discriminate against them, or even to proselytize. Examples include devout English Pilgrims in liberal 16th century Holland and devout Muslims in liberal 21st century Western Europe. We suggest that this is because diversity in religiosity itself poses a threat to conventional personal morality (attitudes on abortion, divorce, euthanasia, suicide, prostitution). The consequences of societal diversity in religiosity (the centrality of religion to one's life) for individuals’ endorsement of conventional personal morality have been neglected in prior research. This paper shows that diversity in religiosity at the national level undermines individuals’ endorsement of conventional personal morality, net of an individual's own religiosity, net of the average levels of religiosity and socioeconomic development in the individual's society, and net of key individual‐level controls. Data are pooled from the World Values Surveys/European Values Surveys, 1981–2008, with 90 countries, 200+ surveys, and 300,000+ individual respondents. Analysis is by multilevel methods (variance components models with fixed effects and random intercepts, estimated by generalized least squares [GLS]).

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An impediment to gender Equality?: Religion’s influence on development and reproductive policy

Cited by 33 publications

References 39 publications

Solidarity in question: activation of dormant political dispositions and Latino support for Trump in 2020

Solidarity in question: activation of dormant political dispositions and Latino support for Trump in 2020

Eu Youth Beliefs in Gender Based Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault

Diversity in Religiosity Undermines Conventional Personal Morality Across the Globe: Evidence From 90 Nations, 300,000+ Individuals

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