Gender Regimes and Cultures of Care

Abstract

Our research uses nationally representative survey data to empirically document whether U.S. East German, and West German attitudes toward maternal employment have converged over the last decade. Specifically, our research examines to what extent the gender-related attitude regimes vary and have changed in accordance with policy developments in the United States and the two regions of unified Germany between 1991 and 2002. Data from the U.S. General Social Survey (GSS) and Die Allgemeine Bevolkerungsumfrage der Sozial-wissenschaften (ALLBUS-German General Social Survey) show that the public attitudes toward maternal employment in both regions of many are moving in a more supportive direction compared to their respective starting points, but West German attitudes have not caught up with those of the East. Furthermore, we found no evidence of a convergence with attitudes in the U.S. In fact, there was no change in the U.S. in the last decade on the gender arrangement continuum, in its policy regime, or toward more supportive attitudes toward women's employment.

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