Gender Role Attitudes in Germany, 1982-2016: An Age-Period-Cohort (APC) Analysis

Abstract: The present study investigates the change of gender role attitudes in Germany between 1982 and 2016. Nine waves of the German General Social Survey are used (N = 26,389). In contrast to previous trend studies, which largely ignore age effects, a mechanism-based age-period-cohort model (Winship/Harding 2008) is applied. It becomes clear that age, period and cohort independently have an impact on gender role ideology. Compared to earlier research, new insights concerning the shape of cohort effects come to light: Specific to traditional gender ideology in Western Germany, it is apparent that the trend towards increasingly egalitarian attitudes comes to a halt in men born around 1956 and later and in women born 1966. For Eastern Germany we observe that the cohort-specific trend towards liberalisation in younger cohorts either is diminishing or even tends to reverse. This pattern of effects mainly mirrors the phases of the feminist movement in Western Germany and the rise and decline o

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft ; 45 (2020) ; 35-63

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
(wann)
2020
Urheber

DOI
10.12765/CPoS-2020-02en
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021070712553370350431
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:47 MESZ

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Beteiligte

  • Lois, Daniel
  • SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository

Entstanden

  • 2020

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