RT Journal Article
T1 Societal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990-2014
A1 Fernández González, Juan Jesús
A1 Mayrl, Damon Walter
A1 Valiente Fernández, Celia
A1 Jaime-Castillo, Antonio M.
AB This manuscript examines the structural causes of the gender gap in political interest. In many countries, men are more interested in politics than women. Yet, in others, men and women prove equally interested. We explain this cross-national variation by focusing on the effects of societal religiosity. Since religion sustains the traditional gender order, contexts where societal religiosity is low undermine the taken-for-grantedness of this order, subjecting it to debate. Men then become especially interested in politics to try to reassert their traditional gender dominance, or to compensate for their increasingly uncertain social status. A secular environment thus increases political interest more among men than among women, expanding this gender gap. Using the World and European Values Survey, we estimate three-level regression models and test our religiosity-based approach in 96 countries. The results are consistent with our hypothesis.
PB Wiley
SN 0007-1315
YR 2021
FD 2021-03-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34858
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34858
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Grant Number: RTI2018-098781-B-I00Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Grant Number: CSO2015-70297-R
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