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Knowing and Caring about Politics: Gender and Political Engagement
Abstract
This paper demonstrates that women are less politically interested, informed, and efficacious than men and that this gender gap in political engagement has consequences for political participation. Only when gender differences in political interest, information, and efficacy are considered along with gender differences in resources can we explain the relatively small disparity between the sexes with respect to political activity. When we searched for the origins of the gender gap in political engagement, we found that it can be explained only partially by gender differences in factors such as education that are associated with political engagement Furthermore, these gender differences in political orientation seem to be specific to politics-rather than the manifestation of general personal attributes Investigation of the extent to which the cues received by males and females that politics is a man's world are responsible for the gender gap in political engagement yielded results that were suggestive, but mixed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Verba, S., Burns, N., & Schlozman, K. L.
- Venue
- The Journal of Politics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1997-11
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1051-1072
- ISSN
- 0022-3816 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2508
- OpenAlex
- W2167902156
- Cited by
- 940
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 11.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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