Abstract
Most research studying gender and political participation fails to problematise the measure of gender identity. Using 2012/13 Dutch Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences panel survey data, we investigate how gender-socialised personality traits relate to various types of political engagement. Baseline models show that, when significant, self-assessed socialised agentic/masculine traits are positively, and communal/feminine traits are negatively, related to political engagement, though only to activist types of engagement. Multivariate analyses reveal the positive link between agentic/masculine traits and very agentic forms of activity, including engaging with political parties and politicians and going to public hearings. Furthermore, the categorial gender/sex gap in participation matters independently of agentic/masculine traits and communal/feminine traits but the direction and size of the gap differs depending on the type of engagement considered.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 113-133 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | European Journal of Politics and Gender |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 22 Oct 2020 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Feb 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© European Conference on Politics and Gender and Bristol University Press 2021.
Copyright:
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Keywords
- Gender identity
- Gender socialised personality traits
- Political participation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Political Science and International Relations
- Sociology and Political Science
- Gender Studies