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Gender-role attitudes in four South-European societies in a time of crisis: A longitudinal analysis from 2008 to 2015

Previous studies have shown significant macro-level links between traditional gender-role attitudes (GRA) and other undesired outcomes, such as the lower percentage of women in parliaments and in governments, as well as their lower literacy levels, economic activity, and education rates, indicating that cultural orientations may contribute to objective gender inequalities (Inglehart and Welzel, 2007 ; Jamal and Langohr, 2007 ; Brandt, 2011). More recently, based on available longitudinal data, Kirbiš and Tavčar Krajnc (2014) reported a modernizing trend of the GRA from 1995/8 to 2008 which took place in all the post-Yugoslav states. Building on previous work, the aim of the present paper was to examine longitudinal GRA patterns in a time of global economic crisis, from 2008 to 2015, analyzing representative national samples from the European Values Study 2008 wave and from the 2015 four-country project “Life-Strategies and Survival Strategies of Households and Individuals in South-East European Societies in Times of Crisis”. The results indicated that from 2008 to 2015 there was an overall trend of retraditionalization (the only partial exception was Slovenia), with respondents expressing more traditional GRA in 2015 compared to 2008 on both traditional GRA indicators. For one measure, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia had the highest traditional GRA scores, followed by Croatia and Slovenia, while on the second, Serbia and Croatia scored the highest. The authors conclude that retraditionalization of GRA has coincided with the global economic crisis, which might further exacerbate gender inequalities in the post-Yugoslav states. The retraditionalization is discussed in terms of the existential insecurities economic crisis has caused.

economic crisis; post-Yugoslav states; gender-role attitudes; retraditionalization; modernization theory

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