Gender role and justice attitudes through the prisms of religion and religiosity

Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Barbara Okun, Ph.D., Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Liat Raz-Yurovich, Ph.D., Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 
Current research on gender role attitudes has three main deficits. First, it uses typologies of these attitudes that are not theoretically derived. Second, the measurement instruments take insufficient account of the role of men in the household. Finally, the research has provided a poorly differentiated picture of the relationship between gender role attitudes and religion or religiosity. This project aims to address these shortcomings by drawing on approaches from sociological justice research. This is plausible because gender role attitudes are related to ideas about how benefits and burdens should be distributed in a partnership, as well as which divisions are considered fair or unfair. Based on this conceptual extension, we will comparatively investigate the relationships between gender role attitudes and attitudes toward justice within and between religious groups using existing and new survey data. The own data collection will be a register-based population survey with survey-experimental elements in Germany and Israel. The goal is to use heterogeneity in religion, religiosity, cultural traditions, family structures, and social institutions and policies to explain gender role attitudes.