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Back to the kitchen? Gender role attitudes in 13 East European countries
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Central and Eastern Europe
Gender
Gender inequality
Gender role attitudes
Post-communism
Social Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
Gender
Gender inequality
Gender role attitudes
Post-communism
Social Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27285
Abstract
This paper explores the determinants of gender role opinions in 13 post-communist Eastern European societies using survey data from the project EUREQUAL. Our main findings consist of two parts. First, contrary to the expectations of scholars who emphasize the lack of gender/feminist consciousness in Eastern Europe, we argue that gender indeed is an important determinant of gender role opinions in post-communist societies: as elsewhere women express more liberal attitudes than men. Second, we argue that the interaction of other determinants of gender role opinions with gender also follows patterns described in the literature for more developed capitalist countries. In this respect, therefore, East European countries seem to fit the general trends of gender role opinion formation. As explanation we point to a connection between women's material conditions and their gender role attitudes, not denying the importance of cultural difference - if primarily as exception - to this process.
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Journal article
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2010
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10.20377/jfr-259