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

Authors

Affiliations

Byung-Deuk Woo

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Lindsey A. Goldberg

University of Florida

Frederick Solt

University of Iowa

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

@article{WooAllemangSolt2022,
  author = {Woo, Byung-Deuk, and Goldberg, Lindsey A., and Solt, Frederick},
  year = {2023},
  title = {Public {{Gender Egalitarianism}}: {{A Dataset}} of {{Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion Toward Egalitarian Gender Roles}} in the {{Public Sphere}}},
  journal={British Journal of Political Science},
  volume={53},
  number={2},
  pages={766–775},
  doi = {10.1017/S0007123422000436}}