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Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System
Abstract
In this article, I build a new line of health inequality research that parallels the emerging structural racism literature. I develop theory and measurement for the concept of structural sexism and examine its relationship to health outcomes. Consistent with contemporary theories of gender as a multilevel social system, I conceptualize and measure structural sexism as systematic gender inequality at the macro level (U.S. state), meso level (marital dyad), and micro level (individual). I use U.S. state-level administrative data linked to geocoded data from the NLSY79, as well as measures of inter-spousal inequality and individual views on women’s roles as predictors of physical health outcomes in random-effects models for men and women. Results show that among women, exposure to more sexism at the macro and meso levels is associated with more chronic conditions, worse self-rated health, and worse physical functioning. Among men, macro-level structural sexism is also associated with worse health. However, greater meso-level structural sexism is associated with better health among men. At the micro level, internalized sexism is not related to physical health among either women or men. I close by outlining how future research on gender inequality and health can be furthered using a structural sexism perspective.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Homan, P.
- Venue
- American Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-05-28
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 486-516
- ISSN
- 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-8271
- OpenAlex
- W2947992151
- Cited by
- 369
- References
- 125
- FWCI
- 53.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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