Republican men stand out in views of their own masculinity, the impact of changing gender roles and men's progress in recent decades.
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- About Pew Research Center 2
- How we did this 3
- Terminology 4
- Table of Contents 5
- Relatively few Americans say people have negative views of masculine men. 6
- Majorities of Americans say most people in the U.S. dont place enough value on men who are caring open about their emotions soft- spoken or affectionate. 7
- Views are more mixed when it comes to traits that tend to be associated with traditional masculinity . 7
- Majorities of men and women find certain behaviors that could be associated with toxic masculinity to be unacceptable. 8
- About four-in-ten men 42 see themselves as highly masculine. 8
- Most Americans say women are doing better than they were 20 years ago when it comes to getting leadership positions at work getting a well-paying job and getting into a college or university. 9
- About two-thirds of men 66 say their father influenced their views about what it means to be a man a great deal or a fair amount. 10
- Young women are much more likely than young men to say social media has had a lot of influence on their views about their gender. 10
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- Most Americans say men and women are basically different in many ways but there is no consensus on whether society or biology drives these differences. 11
- A majority of Americans 57 say men and women are basically similar in the things they are good at in the workplace. 11
- The public sees women as benefitting more than men from changing gender roles at work and in the family. 11
- A majority of Americans 57 say its extremely or very acceptable for men to take care of the home and children while their wife works for pay. 12
- About four-in-ten Americans 42 say its extremely or very acceptable for men to put a lot of effort into their style or fashion choices. 12
- 1. Public views on men and masculinity 13
- Differences by gender 14
- Differences by party 14
- Republican men 15
- Republican women 15
- Democratic men 15
- Democratic women 15
- Differences by gender 16
- Differences by age 17
- Differences by party 18
- Differences by masculinity and femininity rating 18
- 2. Behaviors people find acceptable and unacceptable in men 20
- Differences by gender 20
- Differences by age 21
- Putting a lot of effort into their style and fashion choices 21
- Playing video games on a regular basis 21
- Differences by party 22
- Differences by age 24
- Differences by party 24
- Gender and age differences on splitting the bill 25
- 3. Views on the progress men and women have made in different areas 26
- Differences by gender 27
- Differences by party 28
- Differences by gender 30
- Differences by party 30
- Differences by gender and party in feelings about how women are doing 33
- Differences by gender and age in feelings about how men are doing 33
- 4. Views of the impact of changing gender roles 35
- Differences by gender 35
- Differences by party 35
- Differences by gender 38
- Differences by party 38
- 5. How Americans see differences between men and women 40
- Differences by gender 41
- Differences by party 42
- Comforting children 44
- Disciplining children 44
- 6. How men and women rate their own masculinity and femininity 45
- Differences by race and ethnicity 47
- Differences by age 48
- Differences by party and ideology 49
- Differences among men 51
- Differences among women 52
- Their female friends 52
- TV or movies 52
- Social media 52
- Acknowledgments 53
- Kim Parker Juliana Horowitz Isabel Goddard 53
- Rachel Minkin Luona Lin Kiley Hurst 53
- Dana Braga Reem Nadeem 53
- John Carlo Mandapat 53
- Anna Jackson 53
- Julia OHanlon Maya Pottiger 53
- Methodology 54
- Overview 54
- Panel recruitment 54
- Sample design 55
- Questionnaire development and testing 55
- Incentives 55
- Data collection protocol 55
- For panelists who take surveys online 56
- For panelists who take surveys over the phone with a live interviewer 56
- Data quality checks 57
- Weighting 57
- Dispositions and response rates 59
- A note about the Asian adult sample 60