当前位置: X-MOL 学术Sociological Science › 论文详情
Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)
The Religious Work Ethic and the Spirit of Patriarchy: Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Working for Its Own Sake, 1977 to 2018
Sociological Science ( IF 6.222 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 , DOI: 10.15195/v9.a4
Landon Schnabel , Cyrus Schleifer , Eman Abdelhadi , Samuel Perry

Societal beliefs about women's work have long been a metric for gender equality, with recent scholarship focusing on trends in these attitudes to assess the progress (or stalling) of the gender revolution. Moving beyond widely critiqued gender attitude questions thought to be the only available items for measuring change over time, this article considers women's and men's views toward their own work over the last half century. Traditional gender scripts frame women's labor force participation as less than ideal, something to do if financially necessary but not because work is intrinsically rewarding. Historically, this gender frame was reinforced by religion. We examine the gender gap in working for its own sake over time and whether and how religious involvement moderates these trends. Overall, the gender gap has declined to the point where it is now virtually nonexistent. However, religious involvement acts as a countervailing influence, bolstering the gap such that frequently attending men and women have not yet converged in their desire to work. Although the most religious Americans have not yet converged, men’s dropping desire to work and women's rising desire to work are society-wide trends, and even the most religious Americans could be expected to converge at some point in the future. Traditionalist institutions contribute to unevenness in the gender revolution, but preferences cannot explain the persistent society-wide precarity of women's work: Women now prefer to work for work's sake at the same rate men do.

中文翻译:

宗教工作伦理与父权制精神:1977 年至 2018 年的宗教信仰与工作中的性别差距

长期以来,关于女性工作的社会信念一直是衡量性别平等的指标,最近的学术研究侧重于这些态度的趋势,以评估性别革命的进展(或停滞)。超越被广泛批评的性别态度问题被认为是衡量随时间变化的唯一可用项目,本文考虑了过去半个世纪以来女性和男性对自己工作的看法。传统的性别脚本认为女性的劳动力参与不太理想,如果有经济需要,可以做一些事情,但不是因为工作本质上是有益的。从历史上看,宗教强化了这种性别框架。我们研究了随着时间的推移为工作本身而工作的性别差距,以及宗教参与是否以及如何缓和这些趋势。全面的,性别差距已经缩小到现在几乎不存在的程度。然而,宗教参与起到了抵消作用,扩大了差距,以至于经常参加宗教活动的男性和女性尚未在他们的工作愿望上趋同。尽管最虔诚的美国人还没有融合,但男性工作欲望的下降和女性工作欲望的上升是整个社会的趋势,即使是最虔诚的美国人也有望在未来的某个时候融合。传统制度助长了性别革命的不平衡,但偏好无法解释女性工作在全社会范围内持续存在的不稳定:女性现在更愿意为工作而工作,与男性相同。扩大了差距,以至于经常参加工作的男性和女性尚未在他们的工作愿望上趋于一致。尽管最虔诚的美国人还没有融合,但男性工作欲望的下降和女性工作欲望的上升是整个社会的趋势,即使是最虔诚的美国人也有望在未来的某个时候融合。传统制度助长了性别革命的不平衡,但偏好无法解释女性工作在全社会范围内持续存在的不稳定:女性现在更愿意为工作而工作,与男性相同。扩大了差距,以至于经常参加工作的男性和女性尚未在他们的工作愿望上趋于一致。尽管最虔诚的美国人还没有融合,但男性工作欲望的下降和女性工作欲望的上升是整个社会的趋势,即使是最虔诚的美国人也有望在未来的某个时候融合。传统制度助长了性别革命的不平衡,但偏好无法解释女性工作在全社会范围内持续存在的不稳定:女性现在更愿意为工作而工作,与男性相同。越来越高的工作欲望是整个社会的趋势,即使是最虔诚的美国人也有望在未来的某个时刻趋同。传统制度助长了性别革命的不平衡,但偏好无法解释女性工作在全社会范围内持续存在的不稳定:女性现在更愿意为工作而工作,与男性相同。越来越高的工作欲望是整个社会的趋势,即使是最虔诚的美国人也有望在未来的某个时刻趋同。传统制度助长了性别革命的不平衡,但偏好无法解释女性工作在全社会范围内持续存在的不稳定:女性现在更愿意为工作而工作,与男性相同。
更新日期:2022-03-09
down
wechat
bug