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Title	Replication Data for: Is the Future Female? A Conjoint Experiment on Voter Preferences in Six Arab Countries

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2G7A0M

Creator	Ellen Lust Lindsay J. Benstead

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	Despite growing evidence of pro-female bias in the electorate elsewhere, conventional wisdom holds that voters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) prefer male candidates, presumably due to sexism. We test this conventional wisdom using a conjoint experiment administered to over 30,000 respondents in six MENA countries to explore gender and candidate electability. We find both male and female respondents are more likely to express support for female candidates and see them as more capable than their male counterparts, even in stereotypically male domains. We argue the increasing demand for political outsiders explains these results. In highlighting the importance of such changes, our study expands the application of gender congruity theory in the MENA and beyond by offering evidence that both changes in gender stereotypes (i.e., gender roles) and in what citizens desire in leaders (i.e., leader roles) reduce anti-female bias at the polls.

Subject	Social Sciences MENA, Electability, Gender congruity theory

Date	2024-01-02

Contributor	Data, GLD

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