Reinterpreting the Gender Gap

Wirls, Daniel

doi:10.1086/268986

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“…Scholars studying the American case have argued that women and men have different political interests where women are more likely to care about welfare, environment, childcare, and gender related issues (Deitch 1988;Page and Shapiro 1992;Wirls 1986). While there may be gender differences in the impact of one's gender role attitudes on political trust, the literature on political trust has not focused on gender differences.…”

Section: Political Trustmentioning

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Political Distrust and Gendered Attitudes: The Japanese State and Women

Fuse

Hanada

2009

Sex Roles

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We explore sources of political trust by examining one's gender role attitudes as they relate to political trust in Japan. We hypothesize that progressive gender role attitudes are associated with political distrust. This political distrust is perhaps caused by relative deprivation which progressive individuals experience, given that gender relations are still traditional in Japan. We further hypothesize that this distrust among women extends to the government itself. We analyze the 2003 Japanese General Social Survey, a national representative survey of Japanese adults. Based on multivariate analyses of 1,807 respondents, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings suggest that gender issues are salient among progressive individuals, especially among women.

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Section: Political Trustmentioning

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Political Distrust and Gendered Attitudes: The Japanese State and Women

Fuse

Hanada

2009

Sex Roles

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“…First, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to espouse left-wing liberalism Kanazawa, 2010a), possibly because genuine concerns with genetically unrelated others and willingness to contribute private resources for the welfare of such others-liberalism-may be evolutionarily novel. Even though past studies show that women are more liberal than men (Lake & Breglio, 1992;Shapiro & Mahajan, 1986;Wirls, 1986), and Blacks are more liberal than Whites (Kluegel & Smith, 1989;Sundquist, 1983), the effect of childhood intelligence on adult liberalism is twice as large as the effect of sex or race (Kanazawa, 2010a).…”

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Intelligence and Substance Use

Kanazawa

Hellberg

2010

Review of General Psychology

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Why do some individuals choose to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, and use illegal drugs while others do not? The origin of individual preferences and values is one of the remaining theoretical questions in social and behavioral sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values than less intelligent individuals. Consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs is evolutionarily novel, so the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to consume these substances. Analyses of two large, nationally representative, and prospectively longitudinal data from the United Kingdom and the United States partly support the prediction. More intelligent children, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, are more likely to grow up to consume more alcohol. More intelligent American children are more likely to grow up to consume more tobacco, while more intelligent British children are more likely to grow up to consume more illegal drugs.

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“…through the 1980s, and as women subsequently moved into the Democratic party in the 1990s (Abramowitz and Saunders 1998;Kaufmann 2002;Kaufmann and Petrocik 1999;Norrander 1999a, b;Wirls 1986).…”

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The Gender Gap in Ideology

Norrander¹,

Wilcox²

2008

Polit Behav

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Over the past few decades, a gender gap has emerged in the mass public in ideological self-placement. While most men and women moved in the conservative direction, another segment of women retained their liberal self-identifications. A gender gap also exists in how men and women define their ideology. Which issues are linked to ideological identities is conditioned by gender and time period. Finally, ideological identities are structure by nonpolitical values as well as political issues. Religiosity and religious beliefs have come to increasingly shape Americans' ideological identities, with some differences across the two sexes.

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Reinterpreting the Gender Gap

Cited by 113 publications

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Political Distrust and Gendered Attitudes: The Japanese State and Women

Political Distrust and Gendered Attitudes: The Japanese State and Women

Intelligence and Substance Use

The Gender Gap in Ideology

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