Pensiero, Nicola;
Janmaat, Jan Germen;
(2024)
Why do women develop lower levels of political interest? Examining the influence of education, family socialisation and adult roles.
Acta Politica
10.1057/s41269-024-00349-3.
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Abstract
The political interest of men rises faster than that of women during late adolescence and early adulthood in Britain (Fraile and Sánchez-Vítores in Polit Psychol 41(1):89–106, 2020). This paper analyses whether factors relating to education, the assumption of adult roles and family background can explain this growing disparity. We use panel data of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and Understanding Society (USoc) to examine these factors. Education turns out to be the only factor that is related to different growth trajectories of political interest between men and women. Women with lower levels of education or vocational qualifications show stable or declining levels of political interest while all other categories show rising levels of interest between ages 16 and 30. Education can, however, only partially account for the rising gender gap. Variables representing the attainment of adult roles, such as occupational status, marital status and household composition, and variables capturing family socialisation are not linked to the growing disparity of political interest between men and women. Most of this gap thus remains unexplained.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Why do women develop lower levels of political interest? Examining the influence of education, family socialisation and adult roles |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41269-024-00349-3 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41269-024-00349-3 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Gender and political interest; British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and Understanding Society (USoc); Vocational qualifcations; Growth curve modelling |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194580 |
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