The End of the Gender Revolution? Gender Role Attitudes from 1977 to 20081

By David A. Cotter, J. Hermsen, Reeve D. Vanneman. 2011

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Managers’ Political Beliefs and Gender Inequality among Subordinates: Does His Ideology Matter More Than Hers? (2018, neutral): “…General Social Survey (GSS), which is excerpted in table 1, indicate that conservatives value a traditional division of household labor in part because they feel that children may suffer unexpected negative consequences if their mothers work outside the home (Cotter, Hermsen, and Vanneman, 2011).”
Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Wages (2014, result): “This finding is, we think, consistent with the argument that “egalitarian essentialism”—an ideology that emphasizes equal rights but is combined with gender essentialist beliefs about intensive mothering (Charles and Grusky 2004; Cotter et al. 2011; Hays 1998)—now prevails.”
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “Cotter, Hermsen, and Vanneman (2011) and Fortin (2015) provide some evidence on attitudes, although establishing causation in this relationship is challenging, since people may adjust their attitudes in light of their labor-force behavior and outcomes as well as vice versa.”
Saying and Doing Gender: Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes towards the Sexual Division of Labour (2016, background): “2 At the same time, while traditional attitudes have declined overtime they appear to be stabilising among more recent cohorts (Cotter et al. 2011; Scott and Clery 2013).”
Measuring Stability and Change in Personal Culture Using Panel Data (2020, neutral): “We use four questions to create a scale of gender role attitudes (Cotter, Hermsen, and Vanneman 2011).”
The Self-Expressive Edge of Occupational Sex Segregation1 (2013, background): “…scholars have recently suggested that selfexpressive career decisions are relevant to sex segregation ðe.g., Charles and Bradley 2009; England 2010; Cotter et al. 2011Þ, but the contexts and consequences of a self-expressive edge of sex segregation have not been given sufficient theoretical…”