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  • "Over the past two decades, many countries around the globe have made great improvements in eradicating gender gaps in many aspects of public life. Yet, recent data suggests that gender gaps, especially in politics, have stagnated. Academics, policy makers and political pundits suggest the cultural barriers to gender equality based on traditional norms about gender roles might go a long way explaining this stagnation. To empirically examine the complex relationship between policy programmes, gender norms and political gender gaps has proven extremely difficult most likely due to drawbacks associated with the use of typical cross-national data, such as unit heterogeneity or endogenity. This study exploits the separation and unification of Germany to shed more light on this important relationship. By focussing on the German case and drawing upon data from the German General Social Survey (1990-2012), we can gain causal leverage by comparing differences in citizens' attitudes towards gender and their impact on political participation across birth cohorts in the two German regions that were socialised in starkly different gender regimes. Two important findings stand out. First, we show that gender policies matter. While birth cohorts in East and West who were socialised before or after the Cold War display similar gender attitudes, we find significant differences between the East and West for birth cohorts socialised during Cold War: those from the West hold conservative gender attitudes compared to those from the East. Second, we demonstrate that these differences in gender attitudes have important effects for gender gaps in political participation. Overall, the political gender gap in the East tends to be smaller compared to the West, and traditional gender attitudes are on average negatively correlated with political participation and that the relative negative effect is greater for women than for men. This finding is robust when we deal with endogenity concerns. Our evidence lends credence to the claim that an adverse gender culture might indeed by an important impediment to the closing of political gender gaps."Hauptdatensatz für die Analyse sind die ALLBUS-Daten von 1990-2012. (xsd:string)
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  • Aufgenommen: 30. Fassung, März 2016 (xsd:gyear)
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