13:10 - 14:50
PS8
Room:
Room: Club C
Panel Session 8
Violeta Haas - Panic at the courtroom: How banning the LGBTQ+ "panic" defense shapes the prevalence of hate crimes
Paula Rettl - Male Status Anxiety and Attitudes towards Marginalized Groups
Tarik Abou-Chadi - 'Feminization' of work and radical right backlash
Florian Foos - Individual resilience versus collective mobilisation: Women politicians and women’s political engagement
Nerea Gandara Guerra, Vicente Valentim - Gender norms' change in transitional democracies: the role of women’s political mobilization
Male Status Anxiety and Attitudes towards Marginalized Groups
PS8-3
Presented by: Paula Rettl
Paula RettlChiara AllegriSimone CremaschiCatherine De Vries
Bocconi University
We study how the female revolution - defined as the increasing participation of women in the labor market - shapes attitudes towards marginalized groups in Europe through male status anxiety. We put forward that this revolution fostered male status anxiety in two ways. First, increasing female labor market participation increases competition in the labor market for men (“the labor market channel”). Second, by changing gender roles and enabling more financial independence to women, the female revolution diminishes the probability that men will find a wife and increases the probability of separation and divorce for married men (“the marriage market channel”). We test these hypotheses in three studies. The first study uses ESS and WVS matched to administrative data to show how local marriage market context and working place conditions shape attitudes towards women. The second study uses shows that gender attitudes are causally related to attitudes towards other marginalized groups. The third study is a survey experiment that tests the related mechanisms.