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Gender Role Attitudes in the International Social Survey Programme: Cross-National Comparability and Relationships to Cultural Values
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Abstract Differences in societal views on the roles of men and women have been addressed in many large-scale comparative studies by employing indicators of gender roles attitudes from cross-sectional surveys. Assuming that cross-country differences in gender role attitudes are linked to the prevailing cultur... view more
Differences in societal views on the roles of men and women have been addressed in many large-scale comparative studies by employing indicators of gender roles attitudes from cross-sectional surveys. Assuming that cross-country differences in gender role attitudes are linked to the prevailing cultural value orientations in each society, this study aims at investigating the association between societal views on gender roles, as measured by the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), and the prevailing cultural values, as defined by Schwartz’s theory. However, to carry out meaningful comparisons, we first assessed the prerequisite of measurement equivalence between countries. The comparability of gender role attitudes is limited when using traditional methods based on the concept of exact equivalence (multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis). However, the recently established alignment optimization procedure reveals approximate measurement equivalence and suggests that the mean comparison is trustworthy. Based on these results, we correlate the national mean levels of gender role attitudes with the cultural values of embeddedness, hierarchy and egalitarianism, showing that traditional gender roles are displayed in societies emphasizing hierarchy and embeddedness while progressive views are more expressed in egalitarian societies.... view less
Keywords
cultural factors; ISSP; attitude; gender role; value-orientation; measurement; intercultural comparison
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Free Keywords
comparability; cultural values; gender role attitudes; measurement equivalence; International Social Survey Programme: Family and changing gender roles IV - ISSP 2012 (ZA5900 Data file Version 4.0.0.), https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12661
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 398-431
Journal
Cross-Cultural Research, 54 (2020) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397120915454
ISSN
1552-3578
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
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Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications