The Abortion Attitudes Paradox: Model Specification and Gender Differences |
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Authors: | Mary-Kate Lizotte |
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Institution: | Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama |
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Abstract: | Rather unexpectedly, prior work has failed to find consistent gender differences in public support for legal abortion. Given that gender differences in public opinion emerge for a wide range of other issue areas, it seems paradoxical that there is no consistent gender difference on the issue of abortion. I propose that this failure to find a consistent gender difference is due to how abortion attitudes are modeled. Controlling for religiosity, which research has shown women to score higher on, results in a small and consistent gender gap in support for legal abortion with women more likely than men to support. |
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Keywords: | abortion attitudes gender gap religiosity |
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