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International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2009 21(3):362-367; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edp032
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

Gender-Role Egalitarianism—Is the Trend Reversal Real?

Michael Braun and Jacqueline Scott

Address correspondence to Michael Braun, GESIS—Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, P.O. Box 122155, D 68072 Mannheim, Germany, E-mail: michael.braun@gesis.org

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Though international comparative research is seen as invaluable for promoting theoretical and methodological progress in the social sciences (e.g. Kohn, 1987; Küchler 1998), the problems of functional equivalence in comparative research are well known (e.g. Jowell, 1998). Survey data, as we will show, can give rise to misleading findings, if a specific question is not interpreted in the same way across different national contexts. In this article, we will demonstrate that using different questions (which are associated with particular survey items) can affect not only country differences but also inferences about attitudinal trends. We consider, as illustration, whether the apparent trend in gender-role egalitarianism is artifact or real. Egalitarianism is measured by three different . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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