Public Gender Egalitarianism: A Dataset of Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion Toward Egalitarian Gender Roles in the Public Sphere

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Pohang University of Science and Technology

University of Florida

University of Iowa

Published

May 28, 2023

  • Woo, Byung-Deuk, Lindsey A. Goldberg, and Frederick Solt. 2023. “Public Gender Egalitarianism: A Dataset of Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion Toward Egalitarian Gender Roles in the Public Sphere.” British Journal of Political Science 53(2), 766-775.

    Other details: Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), April 2022.

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    Abstract

    Societal attitudes toward gender roles in the workplace and politics play a central part in theorizing on the difficulty women face in achieving political equality, but shortcomings in the available data have prevented direct examination of many implications of these theories. Drawing on recent advances in latent variable modeling of public opinion and a comprehensive collection of survey data, we present the Public Gender Egalitarianism dataset to address this need: comparable estimates of the public’s attitudes on gender equality in the public sphere across more than one hundred countries over time. These PGE scores are strongly correlated with responses to individual survey items and with women’s rates of participation in the labor force and corporate boards. We expect that the PGE data will become an invaluable source for broadly cross-national and longitudinal research on the causes and consequences of collective attitudes toward gender equality in politics and the economy.

    Important figures

    Figure 3: PGE Scores Over Time Within Selected Countries

    Figure 6: Construct Validation: Correlations Between PGE Scores and Indicators of Workplace Gender Equality

    BibTeX citation

    @misc{WooAllemangSolt2022,
        author = {Woo, Byung-Deuk, and Goldberg, Lindsey A., and Solt, Frederick},
        year = {2022},
        doi = {10.31235/osf.io/37dq9},
        month = {Feb},
        publisher = {SocArXiv},
        title = {Public {{Gender Egalitarianism}}: {{A Dataset}} of {{Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion Toward Egalitarian Gender Roles}} in the {{Public Sphere}}},
        url = {https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/37dq9},
        year = {2022}}