Intensifying gender inequality : why Belgian female students (sometimes) gain less internal political efficacy from citizenship education than male students

Abstract: Persistent gender inequalities in internal political efficacy have traditionally been attributed to gender differences in resources. This article complements the resource model by focusing on how gendered political socialization occurs during citizenship education and how citizenship education might mitigate, reproduce, or intensify inequalities. Based on multilevel models on a 2016 survey dataset (3898 students across 150 schools) of Belgian senior high school students, we show that citizenship education increases internal political efficacy for both male and female students. Howeve... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Matthieu, Joke
ERZEEL, Silvia
Caluwaerts, Didier
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Schlagwörter: Sociology / Politics / Law
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28877555
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : https://hdl.handle.net/10067/2071860151162165141

Abstract: Persistent gender inequalities in internal political efficacy have traditionally been attributed to gender differences in resources. This article complements the resource model by focusing on how gendered political socialization occurs during citizenship education and how citizenship education might mitigate, reproduce, or intensify inequalities. Based on multilevel models on a 2016 survey dataset (3898 students across 150 schools) of Belgian senior high school students, we show that citizenship education increases internal political efficacy for both male and female students. However, we also find that citizenship education intensifies inequalities since male students gain more from it than female students, especially in schools with a conservative gender role culture. Our results indicate that the influence of citizenship education depends on the gendered school context in which it is offered. In this respect, citizenship education risks intensifying rather than mitigating gender inequalities.