title: The end of the gender revolution? Gender role attitudes from 1977 to 2008.
abstract: After becoming consistently more egalitarian for more than two decades, gender role attitudes in the General Social Survey have changed little since the mid-1990s. This plateau mirrors other gender trends, suggesting a fundamental alteration in the momentum toward gender equality. While cohort replacement can explain about half of the increasing egalitarianism between 1974 and 1994, the changes since the mid-1990s are not well accounted for by cohort differences. Nor is the post-1994 stagnation explained by structural or broad ideological changes in American society. The recent lack of change in gender attitudes is more likely the consequence of the rise of a new cultural frame, an "egalitarian essentialism" that blends aspects of feminist equality and traditional motherhood roles.
authors: Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Cotter
authors: Joan M
authors: JM
authors: Hermsen
authors: Reeve
authors: R
authors: Vanneman
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012922:Social Change; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D014933:Women's Rights / Q000639:trends*