Understanding how women’s engagement in collective action for men can increase gender equality or reinforce male privilege
By: Gosia Mikołajczak and Julia C. Becker
Posted on 24 June 2022
Overview
Collective action for other groups, such as men supporting the #MeToo movement or White people joining Black Lives Matter protests, has been typically studied as a social protest advancing equality of disadvantaged groups and aiming for progressive social change.
Our research challenges this assumption in two ways: first, by examining collective action for an advantaged group (women protesting for men's rights). Second, by showing that action for the advantaged can have both reactionary and progressive forms.
Specifically, we focus on the context of gender as a special case of a disadvantaged group (women) actively supporting the advantaged group (men) either to preserve existing power relations (reactionary action supporting male privilege) or to reduce gender inequalities (progressive action supporting men in adopting egalitarian gender roles).
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Gosia Mikołajczak
Research Fellow
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