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The Public Gender Egalitarianism (PGE) Database

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title The Public Gender Egalitarianism (PGE) Database
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WF3USY
 
Creator Solt, Frederick
Woo, Byung-Deuk
Goldberg, Lindsey A.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Societal attitudes toward gender roles in the workplace and politics play a central part in theorizing on the difficulty women face in achieving political equality, but shortcomings in the available data have prevented direct examination of many implications of these theories. Drawing on recent advances in latent variable modeling of public opinion and a comprehensive collection of survey data, we present the Public Gender Egalitarianism dataset to address this need: comparable estimates of the public’s attitudes on gender equality in the public sphere across more than one hundred countries over time. These PGE scores are strongly correlated with responses to individual survey items and with women’s rates of participation in the labor force and corporate boards. We expect that the PGE data will become an invaluable source for broadly cross-national and longitudinal research on the causes and consequences of collective attitudes toward gender equality in politics and the economy.
 
Subject Social Sciences
gender equality
 
Contributor Solt, Frederick