Gender differences in the acceptance of the Muslim headscarf
Abstract
Based on data from the 2011 Swiss post-electoral survey Selects (N = 1531), we examined gender differences in the acceptance of the headscarf. On the one hand, women’s greater support for multiculturalism may translate into positive attitudes toward the headscarf as an expression of tolerance towards diversity. On the other hand, women may not approve of a garment often presented as a symbol of patriarchal oppression. Our results gave weight to the former assumption: Swiss women expressed a greater support to the Muslim headscarf than Swiss men, and they did so because they held more left-wing and multicultural ideologies.
In: Klea Faniko, Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, Oriane Sarrasin, Eric Mayor (eds.), Gender and Social Hierarchies. Perspectives from social psychology, New York, Routledge, 2016, chap. 12
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Klea Faniko, Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, Oriane Sarrasin, Eric Mayor
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Routledge
Languages:
English
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New York
Year:
2016
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Race – racialization – racism
Politics
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Social psychology
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Book chapter