Colloquium in Sept. 2022
Chang, Han Il (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at Kookmin Univ., South Korea)
Using survey data collected in 2021 and 2022, this study analyzes gender differences in authoritarian attitudes between the young (born after 1980) and the middle-aged (born in the year between 1961 and 1980) in South Korea.
In both data, the study finds that the gender gap in authoritarian attitudes is greater among the young than among the middle-aged. As possible mechanisms for this change, various factors have been discussed in the literature: women’s increasing labor force participation and autonomy, increases in the percentage of non-married women, and the spread of feminist consciousness among women.
As another possible factor, precarious employment is pointed out in the study. Precarious employment could cause more anger among the young who have had less time in the labor market than the middle-aged. Given gender differences among the young in perceptions of women’s and men’s abilities and gender discrimination, this anger may lead to the greater gender gap in authoritarian attitudes among the young than among the middle-aged. The study argues that this alternative hypothesis best aligns with both data.
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