Abstract
Evidence points out that women’s adoption of egalitarian attitudes depends on micro and macro conditions. Households’ and women’s characteristics, such as education level, number of children, and age, define their attitudes toward gender equality. Macro-social factors such as media, social programs, place of residence, religion, and institutions, also significantly influence women’s attitudes toward gender equality. In addition, macro-social factors have been found to moderate the effects of a number of determinants of women’s attitude toward gender equality. Communities provide the contexts that shape women’s attitudes and define the meaning of their experiences and characteristics. Using hierarchical linear modeling this paper explores the nature of residential community size on women’s development of egalitarian attitudes. Results indicate that community size moderates the impact of women’s education, empowerment, and employment on their attitudes toward gender equality.
Highlights
Feminist theorists in general have argued that achieving gender equality requires favorable institutional and legal frameworks or changes in economic and political structures, and changes in attitudes (D onovan, 2012; Herzog, 2007; United Nations, 2002)
Many Mexican communities characterized by high levels of social and economic diversity make excellent research sites for testing research hypotheses related to the role of community characteristic on women’s attitudes toward gender equality
The intra-class correlation (ICC) obtained from the unconstrained model was 0.0847 (τ00/(τ00 + σ2)), suggesting that 8.47% of the variance in women’s attitudes toward gender equality is between-localities and the rest is among women within a community
Summary
Feminist theorists in general have argued that achieving gender equality requires favorable institutional and legal frameworks or changes in economic and political structures, and changes in attitudes (D onovan, 2012; Herzog, 2007; United Nations, 2002). Promoting women’s adoption of egalitarian attitudes is crucial and a necessary condition for improving their wellbeing. Evidence points out that women’s adoption of egalitarian attitudes depends on micro and macro conditions. Macro-social factors have been found to m oderate the effects of a number of determinants of women’s attitude toward gender equality (Fischer & Hout, 2006). Even though community characteristics are likely to play a crucial role in shaping women’s attitudes toward gender equality, only a few studies have addressed the effect of residence community size on women’s support for gender equality. Many Mexican communities characterized by high levels of social and economic diversity make excellent research sites for testing research hypotheses related to the role of community characteristic on women’s attitudes toward gender equality
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