The New Demagogues by Joshua M. Roose

Author:Joshua M. Roose [Roose, Joshua M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Corruption & Misconduct, Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9780429775246
Google: FVYFEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29T05:16:47+00:00

In a similar manner to hard misogyny, young men under the age of 35 led the way on the measure of soft misogyny. They agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that women’s rights have gone too far (Table 4.2). The numbers were highest amongst men in Australia (36.93%) and the United States (36.29%), and they were lowest in the United Kingdom (27.28%). Similarly, apart from in Great Britain, where there was a slight rise in the 55+ age range, agreement with the statement fell as men got older, which suggests that older men have historic context on women’s political struggle for equality, and they may be less exposed to the hard edge of the labour force where protections for women, such as maternity leave, are legislated and embedded in organisational culture.

Importantly, women were likely to agree with the proposition that rights for women have gone too far in numbers much higher than anticipated. Agreement was highest amongst women aged 18–35 in Australia (26.83%) and the United States (21.83%), while it was lowest in the United Kingdom (14.52%).

The percentage of the population agreeing with the statement that rights for women have gone too far is significant – more than one in three men in Australia and the United States, and more than one in four in Great Britain. Many of these men agreed with the statement that women deserve equal rights to men. They likely perceive themselves as somehow challenged or disadvantaged by the extension of women’s rights, despite a continued gender pay gap, under representation of women in government and corporate leadership, women’s greater burden when it comes to household labour, and a higher prevalence of poverty amongst women across the life course. This may demonstrate that ‘manosphere’ rhetoric has successfully infiltrated mainstream political discourse and that there are increasing levels of anxiety and anger about job security and declining status amongst men in both the blue-collar and professional workforce.

The fact that women subscribe to the perspective that rights have gone too far may speak simultaneously to the symbolic violence of contemporary misogyny, whereby women adopt the very ideas that subordinate them, and it may indicate that women are members of socially conservative groups or religious denominations that have traditionally exhibited hostility toward both rights and women’s empowerment.

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