Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Collective Guilt
- Section 1 Defining the nature of collective guilt
- 1 International Perspectives on the Experience of Collective Guilt
- 2 The Measurement of Collective Guilt: What It Is and What It Is Not
- 3 The Evocation of Moral Emotions in Intergroup Contexts: The Distinction Between Collective Guilt and Collective Shame
- 4 Collective Guilt in the United States: Predicting Support for Social Policies that Alleviate Social Injustice
- 5 Gender Inequality and the Intensity of Men's Collective Guilt
- Section 2 The Relationship Between Group Identification and Collective Guilt
- Section 3 Consequences for Intergroup Relations
- Section 4 Commentary on the Volume
- Index
- References
5 - Gender Inequality and the Intensity of Men's Collective Guilt
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Collective Guilt
- Section 1 Defining the nature of collective guilt
- 1 International Perspectives on the Experience of Collective Guilt
- 2 The Measurement of Collective Guilt: What It Is and What It Is Not
- 3 The Evocation of Moral Emotions in Intergroup Contexts: The Distinction Between Collective Guilt and Collective Shame
- 4 Collective Guilt in the United States: Predicting Support for Social Policies that Alleviate Social Injustice
- 5 Gender Inequality and the Intensity of Men's Collective Guilt
- Section 2 The Relationship Between Group Identification and Collective Guilt
- Section 3 Consequences for Intergroup Relations
- Section 4 Commentary on the Volume
- Index
- References
Summary
Inequality between women and men is perhaps the most pervasive form of group-based inequality facing humankind; it has a long history stretching back thousands of years (Johns, 1947; Seagle, 1947/1971) and exists to some degree in essentially all modern societies (Peterson & Runyan, 1993). In societies where gender inequality exists, its form is exclusively patriarchal with men having more power, resources, and status than women (Abel & Nelson, 1990; Beck & Keddie, 1978; Busch, 1990; Collier & Yanagisako, 1987; Keegen, 1993; Wood & Eagly, 2002). Women continue to be disadvantaged in the labor force compared to men (Burn, 1996; Kanter, 1977; Vasquez, 2001; Williams, 1992), even when controlling for qualifications, job type, and required skills (Bartol, 1999; Jacobs, 1995; Jacobs & Steinberg, 1990; Reskin & Padavic, 1994; Stroh, Brett, & Reilly, 1992). Furthermore, women are more likely than men to be poor (McClanahan & Kelly, 1999), engage in unpaid work (Shelton, 1999), and are the primary victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault (Rozee & Koss, 2001).
Individual men vary in the extent to which they are responsible for maintaining gender inequality. Furthermore, the form and extent of male privilege varies depending on social class, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation (Connell, 1987). However, at the group level, gender inequality clearly benefits men at the expense of women. In this chapter, we consider a number of factors that are likely to influence the extent to which gender inequality will lead men to experience a sense of collective guilt.
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- Collective GuiltInternational Perspectives, pp. 75 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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