The Relationship Between Gender, beliefs, and Feminist Identity
Our research aimed to gain more understanding of the gap in which people do not call themselves feminists but have feminist beliefs: the identity-ideology disparity. More specifically, we looked at how gender and belief in a just world (BJW) levels interacted with feminist identity, feminist ideology, and the identity-ideology disparity. We had 94 participants with 7.4% men, 92.6% women, and 1.1% non-binary with a mean age of 20.20 years old. They took the Liberal Feminist Attitudes and Ideology Scale (LFAIS) and BJW scale developed by Dalbert in order to measure our variables (Morgan, 1996; Dalbert, Montada, & Schmitt, 1987; Dalbert, 1999). We did find that the higher an individual’s feminist ideology was, the more likely they were to identify as a feminist. However, we found no significant interactions between gender, BJW levels, feminist identity, feminist ideology, or the identity-ideology disparity. The lack of significant results is likely because of a limited sample size. These results suggest that there may not be a relationship between these variables, or simply that more research may need to be done
Reese Wilcox