The file includes supplementary material mentioned in the manuscript " Gender mainstreaming ... more The file includes supplementary material mentioned in the manuscript " Gender mainstreaming and gender equality in Europe: Policies, legislation and Eurobarometer surveys " submitted to the journal <em>Studi di Sociologia</em>. The file reports a summary of the main steps of the EU legislation on gender equality and gender mainstreaming from 1957 to 2017 (Table 1); and an overview of the topics on gender issues investigated by the Eurobarometer by round between 1975 and 2016 (Table 2).
To discuss the cultural roots of violence against women (VAW), this study focuses on individual g... more To discuss the cultural roots of violence against women (VAW), this study focuses on individual gender norms, prescriptive gender role expectations, moral justification of VAW, and institutional gender norms that define gender cultures, that provide opportunities for VAW, and legitimize roles and behaviors. We used indicators of gender norms related to VAW from different sources to provide an overview of 12 countries (Armenia, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, and Ukraine). The indicators include individual gender role attitudes and justification of wife beating from the World Values Survey; information on national legislation and institutional discrimination from the Social Institution Gender Index from the OECD; and each country’s position on the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence—a transnational platform with relevant transformative power that has been op...
This paper examines the feasibility of ex-post harmonisation strategies using European Values Stu... more This paper examines the feasibility of ex-post harmonisation strategies using European Values Study (EVS) Wave 5 (2017–2020) and European Social Survey (ESS) Round 9 (2018–2019) data across 17 countries. The study shows an empirical assessment of the comparability of four items measuring religious behaviours (belonging to a religious denomination at present/in the past, religious services attendance, and praying), captured in both surveys. The novelty of this paper lies in the analytical comparison of religiosity indicators that are rarely assessed from a comparative perspective.The harmonisation strategy was based upon several analytical techniques that seek to determine similarities and differences between the selected items in terms of (a) their validity, by examining their correlations with a set of sociodemographic and substantive correlates, (b) their distributions, supplemented by visual comparisons and relevant statistical tests, and (c) item non-substantive shares. The find...
In 2019, workflows for the promotion of CESSDA Training activity via Twitter, the management of t... more In 2019, workflows for the promotion of CESSDA Training activity via Twitter, the management of the CESSDA Training Calendar, the management and update of the CT website and DMEG, as well for the management of the CESSDA Training mailbox were developed and implemented. In 2020, GESIS continued to follow the same workflows for promoting via Twitter and updating the content online according to 2020 ongoing activity. This document reports the activity carried out in 2020 concerning three main areas: (i) Twitter activity aimed at promoting CESSDA Training (CT); (ii) Maintenance of the CESSDA Training website and the online version of the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG) and (iii) Maintenance of the CESSDA Training Calendar and uploaded content.
Il file contiene materiale supplementare allla pubblicazione Lomazzi, Vera (2018), "<em&g... more Il file contiene materiale supplementare allla pubblicazione Lomazzi, Vera (2018), "<em>Le donne nel sindacato: il protagonismo silenzioso"</em>, in Pais, I., Pesenti, L., Rovati, G., Protagonisti della rappresentanza. Viaggio esplorativo tra i delegati della CISL lombarda. Bologna, Il Mulino. ISBN 978-88-15-26784-9, pp.243-276. Il documento fornisce informazioni sulla codifica e operazionalizzazione delle varibaili realizzate per l'analisi svolta nel capitolo. Attraverso modelli di regressione lineare, lo studio analizza i fattori che intervengono nella diversa durata dei percorsi di carriera tra uomini e donne nell'ambito della rappresentanza sindacale.
This presentation, given during the RatSWD Panel at the VfS Annual Conference 2020 - Gender Econo... more This presentation, given during the RatSWD Panel at the VfS Annual Conference 2020 - Gender Economics (27-30 September 2020), provides an overview of microdata on Gender Economics topics available at the Research Data Center (RDC) "International Survey Programs" at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences. The FDZ "International Survey Programs" at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences provides researchers with data access and consultation services on important international study series covering a wide range of topics related to attitude and behavior research for international comparison and analyses over time. The contribution aims at offering an overview of the micro-data freely available to researchers for the study of gender economics issues and policy evaluation. The Eurobarometer, which covers all the EU MS, gathers information on Europeans' attitudes toward gender equality in the labor market; gender norms; the diffusion of gender ste...
Gender mainstreaming and gender equality in Europe, 2019
The third chapter describes the changes in the main conceptualisations of gender equality and GM ... more The third chapter describes the changes in the main conceptualisations of gender equality and GM in relations with social and gender policies and their development over time in Europe. Is it clear that there are different potential instruments available in the gender equality perspective and the relevance of the gender mainstreaming strategy for social policies is to propose and pursue the introduction of a gender equality perspective to all policies at all levels of governance. In particular, the chapter analyseshow policies are addressing the gender mainstreaming perspective and if and how different welfare states and welfare regimes could influence the way in which gender measures and policies are implemented. The work-family issue is a field of application and verification in evaluating the degree of gender equality options within a welfare state system in a comparative way. The issue of evaluation of gender and social policies is also considered in the analysis of the gender budgeting and gender auditing strategies applied to measure the implementation and the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming.
Several repeated cross-national surveys include measurements of attitudes toward gender roles to ... more Several repeated cross-national surveys include measurements of attitudes toward gender roles to investigate individuals’ beliefs regarding the appropriateness of men and women’s roles in a particular context. When used to compare attitudes across countries, these measurements reveal critical factors that could cause a lack of equivalence between different cultural contexts, and that could therefore produce misleading results. Nevertheless, the use of such measures to compare country means without assessing measurement equivalence is common. It should also be considered that the assessment of equivalence within a large-scale sample from cross-sectional surveys through multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) often fails because of the strict requirements necessary. The current article is used to assess the measurement equivalence of the gender role attitudes scale included in the last wave of the World Values Survey in 59 countries, with the main goal of identifying the most ...
Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 2017
This study provides a critical evaluation of the gender role attitude scale included in the fourt... more This study provides a critical evaluation of the gender role attitude scale included in the fourth wave of the European Values Study. The goodness of this scale is tested considering first of all its reliability and the stability of the factorial structure. The results suggest caution in the use of this instrument: the scale presents a deep variation in reliability across countries and its configuration is not stable, displaying several different factor structures from one country to another. In considering the source of this instability, this study addresses a priming effect due to questions introduced in 2008 immediately prior to the use of the gender role attitudes scale that modified the context of response.
The file includes supplementary material mentioned in the manuscript " Gender mainstreaming ... more The file includes supplementary material mentioned in the manuscript " Gender mainstreaming and gender equality in Europe: Policies, legislation and Eurobarometer surveys " submitted to the journal <em>Studi di Sociologia</em>. The file reports a summary of the main steps of the EU legislation on gender equality and gender mainstreaming from 1957 to 2017 (Table 1); and an overview of the topics on gender issues investigated by the Eurobarometer by round between 1975 and 2016 (Table 2).
To discuss the cultural roots of violence against women (VAW), this study focuses on individual g... more To discuss the cultural roots of violence against women (VAW), this study focuses on individual gender norms, prescriptive gender role expectations, moral justification of VAW, and institutional gender norms that define gender cultures, that provide opportunities for VAW, and legitimize roles and behaviors. We used indicators of gender norms related to VAW from different sources to provide an overview of 12 countries (Armenia, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, and Ukraine). The indicators include individual gender role attitudes and justification of wife beating from the World Values Survey; information on national legislation and institutional discrimination from the Social Institution Gender Index from the OECD; and each country’s position on the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence—a transnational platform with relevant transformative power that has been op...
This paper examines the feasibility of ex-post harmonisation strategies using European Values Stu... more This paper examines the feasibility of ex-post harmonisation strategies using European Values Study (EVS) Wave 5 (2017–2020) and European Social Survey (ESS) Round 9 (2018–2019) data across 17 countries. The study shows an empirical assessment of the comparability of four items measuring religious behaviours (belonging to a religious denomination at present/in the past, religious services attendance, and praying), captured in both surveys. The novelty of this paper lies in the analytical comparison of religiosity indicators that are rarely assessed from a comparative perspective.The harmonisation strategy was based upon several analytical techniques that seek to determine similarities and differences between the selected items in terms of (a) their validity, by examining their correlations with a set of sociodemographic and substantive correlates, (b) their distributions, supplemented by visual comparisons and relevant statistical tests, and (c) item non-substantive shares. The find...
In 2019, workflows for the promotion of CESSDA Training activity via Twitter, the management of t... more In 2019, workflows for the promotion of CESSDA Training activity via Twitter, the management of the CESSDA Training Calendar, the management and update of the CT website and DMEG, as well for the management of the CESSDA Training mailbox were developed and implemented. In 2020, GESIS continued to follow the same workflows for promoting via Twitter and updating the content online according to 2020 ongoing activity. This document reports the activity carried out in 2020 concerning three main areas: (i) Twitter activity aimed at promoting CESSDA Training (CT); (ii) Maintenance of the CESSDA Training website and the online version of the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG) and (iii) Maintenance of the CESSDA Training Calendar and uploaded content.
Il file contiene materiale supplementare allla pubblicazione Lomazzi, Vera (2018), "<em&g... more Il file contiene materiale supplementare allla pubblicazione Lomazzi, Vera (2018), "<em>Le donne nel sindacato: il protagonismo silenzioso"</em>, in Pais, I., Pesenti, L., Rovati, G., Protagonisti della rappresentanza. Viaggio esplorativo tra i delegati della CISL lombarda. Bologna, Il Mulino. ISBN 978-88-15-26784-9, pp.243-276. Il documento fornisce informazioni sulla codifica e operazionalizzazione delle varibaili realizzate per l'analisi svolta nel capitolo. Attraverso modelli di regressione lineare, lo studio analizza i fattori che intervengono nella diversa durata dei percorsi di carriera tra uomini e donne nell'ambito della rappresentanza sindacale.
This presentation, given during the RatSWD Panel at the VfS Annual Conference 2020 - Gender Econo... more This presentation, given during the RatSWD Panel at the VfS Annual Conference 2020 - Gender Economics (27-30 September 2020), provides an overview of microdata on Gender Economics topics available at the Research Data Center (RDC) "International Survey Programs" at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences. The FDZ "International Survey Programs" at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences provides researchers with data access and consultation services on important international study series covering a wide range of topics related to attitude and behavior research for international comparison and analyses over time. The contribution aims at offering an overview of the micro-data freely available to researchers for the study of gender economics issues and policy evaluation. The Eurobarometer, which covers all the EU MS, gathers information on Europeans' attitudes toward gender equality in the labor market; gender norms; the diffusion of gender ste...
Gender mainstreaming and gender equality in Europe, 2019
The third chapter describes the changes in the main conceptualisations of gender equality and GM ... more The third chapter describes the changes in the main conceptualisations of gender equality and GM in relations with social and gender policies and their development over time in Europe. Is it clear that there are different potential instruments available in the gender equality perspective and the relevance of the gender mainstreaming strategy for social policies is to propose and pursue the introduction of a gender equality perspective to all policies at all levels of governance. In particular, the chapter analyseshow policies are addressing the gender mainstreaming perspective and if and how different welfare states and welfare regimes could influence the way in which gender measures and policies are implemented. The work-family issue is a field of application and verification in evaluating the degree of gender equality options within a welfare state system in a comparative way. The issue of evaluation of gender and social policies is also considered in the analysis of the gender budgeting and gender auditing strategies applied to measure the implementation and the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming.
Several repeated cross-national surveys include measurements of attitudes toward gender roles to ... more Several repeated cross-national surveys include measurements of attitudes toward gender roles to investigate individuals’ beliefs regarding the appropriateness of men and women’s roles in a particular context. When used to compare attitudes across countries, these measurements reveal critical factors that could cause a lack of equivalence between different cultural contexts, and that could therefore produce misleading results. Nevertheless, the use of such measures to compare country means without assessing measurement equivalence is common. It should also be considered that the assessment of equivalence within a large-scale sample from cross-sectional surveys through multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) often fails because of the strict requirements necessary. The current article is used to assess the measurement equivalence of the gender role attitudes scale included in the last wave of the World Values Survey in 59 countries, with the main goal of identifying the most ...
Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 2017
This study provides a critical evaluation of the gender role attitude scale included in the fourt... more This study provides a critical evaluation of the gender role attitude scale included in the fourth wave of the European Values Study. The goodness of this scale is tested considering first of all its reliability and the stability of the factorial structure. The results suggest caution in the use of this instrument: the scale presents a deep variation in reliability across countries and its configuration is not stable, displaying several different factor structures from one country to another. In considering the source of this instability, this study addresses a priming effect due to questions introduced in 2008 immediately prior to the use of the gender role attitudes scale that modified the context of response.
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